This comparatively restrained room is a modest
overture to Stuart's state rooms which follow. The plaster frieze ornamented with urns is similar to that in the dining room at Lichfield House in St. James's Square, also designed by Stuart.
The unique gilt metal Spencer 'S' pattern door furniture, used in
all the state rooms, is copied from the originals now at Althorp. The Bacchic head forming the handle was taken from a Roman sarcophagus, a miniature copy of which served as the money box of the Society of Dilettanti.
