Marquetry work.
Interesting table leg.
Antechamber to the Queen’s Bedchamber.
Ivory marquetry.
Wood painted by artisans to look like olivewood, which was possibly more expensive than the actual thing itself!
The Queen’s Bedchamber, with tapestries from around 1740 after Watteau and Pater.
Painting ‘The Virgin and Child with St John’ after Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530)
Tapestry peacock.
The Queen’s Closet. A very private room to which only the most intimate friends of the Queen or the Lauderdales would have been admitted.
The original wall hangings of striped silk borders are extremely rare survivals of the most luxurious form of wall decoration of the period.
An annoyingly wonky photograph of the ceiling, but I wasn’t able to get directly underneath it to straighten it up. Including here because I loved it, the painting represents Ganymede and the Eagle, attributed to Antonio Verrio.
Looking up to the third floor, no admittance however.
Past some of the servant’s quarters when going from room to room.
Mirror selfie.
The Duchess’s Private Closet.
Looking back from the White Closet.
The White Closet, also for the Duchess.
The Yellow Bedchamber or Volury Room.
Another mirror self-portrait.
Lost track and forgotten which room this is, possibly the Withdrawing Room?
The Marble Dining Room.
Looking back towards the Marble Dining Room.
The Duke’s Closet.
This would have been a very private space for the Duke to retire to, after holding meetings/entertaining visitors in the Duchess’s Bedchamber (originally the Duke’s bedchamber until alterations were made in the 1670s, and he moved to her old bedchamber).
The Duke’s Closet. He would often have slept in this chair - sleep was considered dangerous at the time as one could be open to psychic attack by the devil and his minions (!) The Duke would’ve been allowed a few hours sleep before being woken by a servant, when he would’ve stayed awake and conducted some reading or other business, before indulging in another few hours sleep ..... it sounds exhausting.
Loved the chamber pot under the chair by the bed in the Duchess’s Bedchamber.
Tapestry in the Duchess’s Bedchamber.
Ornate stand in corridor leading towards the Great Hall, part of the servant quarters.
Vintage wheelchair.
The Buttery.
Not quite sure what this is, something to do with the door mechanism (an automatic closer?) on door separating the Great Hall from the servant quarters.
Above the front door.
Under the arch to the left of the front door.
Statue at the front of the house.
The right of the front door.
Not quite sure what this was either, but an enormous trough of some kind made from lead?
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