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Chair
The chair won by Ioan Arfon (John Owen Griffith) at Bethesda in 1865 was based on the style of a fashionable shell-back hall chair. Made of oak with carved edging incorporating a simplified Prince of Wales' feathers at the top. The brass plaque on the back of this chair commemorated the event - a common addition to bardic chairs. The 1860s was a period of growth in regional eisteddfodau and the Cymmrodorion the National Eisteddfod Society. It was around this time too that chairs were awarde.d and kept by the winning poets.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
38.467.7
Acquisition
Donation
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Location
In store
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