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apartment, confining of a bed-chamber 

 and two dreffing rooms, one of the latter 

 27 feet by 18. The chimney-piece fur- 

 prizingly elegant ; a border of Siena mar- 

 ble, furrounded by compartments of a 

 black marble ground, inlaid with flowers, 

 fruit, and birds of marble in their natural 

 colours; moft exquifitely finifhed. The bed- 

 chamber, 27 by 15, the other drefling-roorrt 

 (both open into the gallery) 28 by 18; 

 the chimney-piece pilafters of Siena, with 

 white polifhed capitals fupporting the 

 cornice of white and Siena marble ; the 

 whole very elegant : over it a copy, from 

 Vandyke, of Charles the Firft's Queen, by 

 Lady Fitzivi/liams, exceedingly well done ; 



the face, hair, and drapery excellent. ■ 



Here is one of the mod curious cabinets in 

 England ; it is in architectural divifions of 

 a center and two wings, on a bafement 

 itory of drawers ; a cornice finely wrought 

 of ebony, the frieze of ivory, and the ar- 

 chitecture of tortoife-fhell, fupported by 

 Corinthian fluted pillars of tortoife-fhell 

 and ebony carved in reliefs, the capitals 

 and bafes gilt. The entrance of the 

 building ruilics in tortoife-fhell, the divi- 

 fions in ivory. By looking in the center 

 on either fide, is a deception of perfpeclive ; 

 the defign is very fine, and the work* 

 manfhip excellent. 



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