Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1949
Materials
Oak, faux leather, brass
Measurements
99 x 44 x 47 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318278.1
Summary
An oak open-back chair, one of a pair, British, first half 20th century, the shaped top rail united to the lower back rail by three vertical back splats, with square-section uprights, the seat re-covered with faux brown leather secured with brass studs, the front square-section legs shaped and tapered, plain square-section rear legs slightly splayed, a single stretcher to the front and each side. These chairs are the companion of armchair (NT 1318314).
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.