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Pair chests - French eighteenth century, four-drawer, ormolu mounts, black marble tops supporting pair modern gold lamps, cream and gold paper shades cannon and soldier accessories carrying out military motif

Fireplace - Empire, all black marble

Andirons - gilded, modern French

Fireside Chairs - one, Louis XVI chaise the other, Directoire bergere both upholstered in quilted blue fabric with military trophies walnut frames

Benches - pair, Italian Directoire, finished in black and gold, upholstered in yellow satin

Long Table - to serve chaise, walnut

Book Table - two-tier, eighteenth century, mahogany

Table - French, Louis XVI, black marble top, two-tier, inlaid mahogany

Armchairs - pair, Directoire, upholstered in blue and cream toile de Joury with military influence in pattern

[[underlined]]EDWARDIAN COCKTAIL ROOM[[/underlined]]
by George A. Stacey

created as a background for the following paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec

"La Songuese"
"Honorine P."
"Lady with a Dog"
"L'Accroche-Coeur"
"Madame Pascal"
"Dans Les Coulisses"

A romantically gay cocktail room of the Elegant Eighties with gilt bamboo furniture, draped velvet dado in raspberry pink, modern clear-glass folding screen, and early nineteenth-century chandelier composed of three pink porcelain lamps with glass chimneys and globes. A particular point of interest in this room is the old wallpaper of yellow-green brocaded [[underlined]]floc[[/underlined]]. The Toulouse-Lautrec paintings on the wall are definitely in the spirit of the room. 

Other items of interest in the room are:

Ceiling - painted raspberry pink

Floor - painted olive green

Rug = fur, dyed pink

Windows - raspberry pink velvet drapes and valances with old, nineteenth century French rose cord trim

Wall Brackets - flanking doorway, of raspberry pink velvet supporting pair gold filigree urns

Serving Table - draped and festooned with raspberry pink velvet, glass top, supporting pair nineteenth century gilt candelabra 

Mirror - etched, Venetian