Explore Fairfax: Rear Hall: The Collection
Objects in the Rear Hall
Chinese Dish
A late Ming imported dish, c.1610, decorated with panels of floral decoration around the border and surrounding a wild garden.
Category: Ceramics
Hall Chair
An important walnut hall chair,c.1715, with a carved and waisted splat decorated with a fish scale pattern that takes its inspiration from imported Chinese ceramics and furniture.
Category: Furniture
Jacobean Buffet c.1610
This robust court cupboard combines heavily carved supports and elements with finely inlaid parts. The centre section has some of the earliest known floral marquetry on a piece of English oak furniture.
Category: Furniture
Stucco medallion - 'Roma'
Between the doors on the ground floor and set high is this draped stucco medallion of Roma after a design in Phillipe Maffei, Gemme Antiche Figurate, 1707.
Category: Architectural feature
Chinese DishA late Ming imported dish, c.1610, decorated with panels of floral decoration around the border and surrounding a wild garden.
Category: Ceramics
Hall ChairAn important walnut hall chair,c.1715, with a carved and waisted splat decorated with a fish scale pattern that takes its inspiration from imported Chinese ceramics and furniture.
Category: Furniture
Jacobean Buffet c.1610 This robust court cupboard combines heavily carved supports and elements with finely inlaid parts. The centre section has some of the earliest known floral marquetry on a piece of English oak furniture.
Category: Furniture
Stucco medallion - 'Roma'Between the doors on the ground floor and set high is this draped stucco medallion of Roma after a design in Phillipe Maffei, Gemme Antiche Figurate, 1707.
Category: Architectural feature