Chair
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1899
Materials
Mahogany, dralon
Measurements
81.5 x 57 x 56.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318293
Summary
A mahogany scallop-back chair, English, late 19th century, the shaped back and round seat covered in later green dralon with green cord and trim, with shaped seat rail on two turned and shaped front legs, with rear square-section splayed legs, all with ceramic castors.
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.