Design for a state bedchamber by Daniel Marot, c. 1698

Like in the Yellow Lodging Room at Stenton, this room is about display of costly textiles. While both rooms were for sleeping, they were for entertaining, with a full set of chairs at the perimeter of the room. Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, plate 6, page 22. See also, Peter Thornton, Authentic Décor: The Domestic Interior, 1620-1920. New York: Random House, 1984, plate 99, page 81.