Boot rack
Category
Furniture
Date
1770 - 1829
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
96 x 91.5 x 32.5 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318299
Summary
A mahogany boot and whip rack, British, late 18th/ early 19th century, the two end supports with shaped tops and line-incised to their lengths, supporting a rack with cut-outs to hold seven pairs of boots, lower down is supported a bar with eleven pairs of long pegs, on shallow arched feet.
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. An auction was held in 1943 after the death of J.V.T. Lander, many items were purchased at this auction by J.V.T. Lander's son Thomas Offley Lander and retained at Sunnycroft. This boot and whip rack was included as lot 719 in the Barber & Son, F.A.I. auction, '1943, Sunnycroft, Wellington..Shropshire, Catalogue of Fine Appointments and Antique Pieces being the Contents of the Residence for sale by auction on the premises, on Wednesday, March 31st and Thursday, April 1st...'.