Furniture
- State dining table of Victorian rosewood, approximately 20 foot in length. With its separate sections can seat 42 persons.
- Part of a large service specially commissioned from Vienna by the Fifth Earl Spencer, and used to entertain royalty in Dublin Castle when the Earl was Viceroy of Ireland.
- Set of 54 hoop back chairs of George III period, designed by George Seddon in 1800.
- The two long sideboards at each end of the room were designed by Henry Holland and supplied between 1785 and 1791. They are ormolu mounted mahogany with slightly serpentine fronts and rounded ends. The frieze is decorated with rosette and chain ornament on six square tapering legs and toes.
- Underneath one of the Henry Holland sideboards is a mahogany wine cistern which has gilt metal lion masks, cabriole legs and paw feet c.1740.
- To the right of the Scheemakers chimneypiece is a sideboard supplied by John King in 1791.
- Between the windows are a pair of giltwood mirrors with oval plates and frames carved with crossed bulrushes each supporting two candle branches.
- Eight Louis XVI bronze and ormolu two light candelabra of partly draped cupids holding flaming torches.
Chimneypieces from Spencer House, London.
This was one of the last rooms to take shape after the refashioning of the house in 1877. Previously the room was divided at the columns; at the far end was the Raphael Library, an overflow for the Long Library, while the larger space was a billiard room. Between the two fireplaces a pair of portraits by Carlo Maratta painted in Rome, the right hand one showing Robert, Second Earl of Sunderland, in classical attire. He was the original art connoisseur of the family and brought back some of the original paintings seen in the collection. The chimneypieces both come from the Spencer House; the right-hand one with hanging fruit panels from the Rubens Room and the other by the brilliant Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781), from the Palm Room. It is of Siena and white marble, with the term heads representing Hesiod and Homer. It may well have been designed by James Stuart and the attribution to the carver is based on a family tradition established during the lifetime of the Second Earl Spencer
Cincinnitus called from the farm by Salvator Rosa.
Diogenes recieving a visit from Alexander and a company of soliders by Alavator Rosa.
Robert Spencer, Second Earl of Sunderland (1641-1702) by Carlo Maratta.
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