Dressing chest
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Pine, paint
Measurements
92 x 93.5 x 53 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318300.1
Summary
A green-painted pine dressing chest, part of a group with dressing mirror decorated ensuite, English, second half 19th century, the dressing chest with rectangular top and three-quarter gallery with shaped ends, above three drawers, each drawer with two black-painted knob handles, on turned 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.