Ian King
I have lived in Dolgellau since 1988 and have run a town website at dolgellau.wales since 2000. Nannau.com was launched in April 2014 and this site in May 2018. I also have a Nannau Facebook Page if you want to post any comments.
Parliament Armchair of the Nannau Family
Parliament armchair of the Nannau family, Merioneth, late 17th century
It is an oak joined armchair with decorative carving and bears the initials of Huw Nannau and his wife, Katrin Vaughan, who...
Gruffydd Nanney’s High Chair from 1669
A High chair which belonged to the Nanney family, 1669.
This late-seventeenth-century joined high chair is a good example of a piece of children’s furniture from that period. The back panel has...
The Arthog Bucket
During the late Bronze Age, metalworkers mastered the art of making buckets and cauldrons from hammered sheets of bronze, fastened together with rivets. The Arthog Bucket is one of the earliest...
Early Bronze Age Tanged Bronze Spearhead
Early Bronze Age; tanged bronze spearhead, the triangular blade with flat central rib, short tang with single rivet hole, 1750 - 1450 B.C., 5.4375 in overall length. Formerly at Nannau and...
Victorian Figured Oak Breakfast Table
A Victorian Figured Oak Breakfast Table, Welsh. The timber reputedly from an oak tree known as Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll. Sold for £750 inc. premium.
Reputedly bequeathed by Sir Robert Williames Vaughan,...
Oak Folding Top Table
A Welsh oak folding top table, the 19th century crossbanded veneered top, inscribed underneath ‘Ceubren yr Ellyll’, on a later turned folding base, 30.5in (77.5cm) h, 43.25in (110cm) w, 28.5in (72.4cm)...
Tamlyns 2008 Auction – Lot 056
The White Ox of Nannau - DANIEL CLOWES (1774-1829) - The Famous Nanney Ox, the last of the white herd of Nannau, slaughtered for the coming of age celebrations of the...
Tamlyns 2008 Auction – Lot 055
The White Ox Candelabra The horns and hoofs mounted in silver, raised on pollard-oak rectangular plinth, the horns detachable for use as drinking vessels, each bearing a circular silver shield, one...
