Chair
Thonet Brothers
Category
Furniture
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Beech, cane, paper
Measurements
86 cm (Height); 38 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Eastern Europe
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318305
Summary
A bent beechwood and cane chair, model 214, probably manufactured in Eastern Europe, second half 19th century, produced by Thonet Brothers (Gebrüder Thonet), the chair back formed of two bentwood hoops, the outer hoop extending down to form the rear two legs, with a circular caned seat, the plain front legs joined to the rear with a single circular stretcher. Paper label affixed to the underside of the chair seat with the Gebrüder Thonet logo and reading 'THONET/WIEN/ Mit gesetzlichem schutze gegeu Nachahmung/ K.k.Hof. Lith. u. Stemdr. v.A. Grube, Wien.' and indistinctly stenciled to inside of the front seat rail 'THONET AUS...'.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of chair seat: Paper label affixed to the underside of the chair seat with the Gebrüder Thonet logo and reading 'THONET/WIEN/ Mit gesetzlichem schutze gegeu Nachahmung/ K.k.Hof. Lith. u. Stemdr. v.A. Grube, Wien.' and indistinctly stenciled to inside of the front seat rail 'THONET AUS....'.
Makers and roles
Thonet Brothers, manufacturer