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Chair

Throne in the form of an armchair with a high canted back and flat curving arms, brown oak, carved and with painted details; the centre section of the back with an arched cresting rail, carved with leaves, berries and interlace around a central boss, painted with a rampant red dragon on a gold ground, between two high crocketted finials, above a lattice of roundels decorated with spiral ornament, the side panels lower with triangular spandrels and smaller finials, together with a lattice of roundels which are repeated under the arms, most inscribed in gold (probably later) with the names of forty poets from Taliesin to Dafydd ap Gwilym; shaped plank seat with canted front; square section legs with a front stretcher.

Chair
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Item Number

NMW A 50695

Measurements

Height (cm): 159.4
Height (in): 62
Length (cm): 57.1
Length (in): 22
Width (cm): 76.2
Width (in): 30

Categories

Dodrefn | Furniture Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art
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