reception-salon

Updated: August 9, 2026

From the hall we pass into a large reception-salon, where a double row of windows of richly stained glass represent a variety of rural scenes. Ceiling and doors are richly gilded; the workmanship of the latter is exquisite. Broad divans, resplendent with crimson velvet, run all round the room. In the centre a fountain springs from a basin of porphyry.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century