Dresser base
Category
Furniture
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
Pine, paint
Measurements
94 x 180.5 x 55.5 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318274
Summary
A stripped pine kitchen dresser base, British, 19th century, the rectangular top with moulded rim, the top back with raised frame which forms three sides of a rectangle, probably to support a dresser upper section, the front with two deep drawers above two pairs of paneled cupboard doors, the drawers with ebonized knob handles, the handles from two cupboard doors absent, the inside of the doors are painted brown, the interior with a single fixed shelf. Thought to have formerly been painted brown, the paint was stripped by a Mr Sutton in the 1980s.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.