The Strong Family by Charles Philips, 1732

Tea is served in an elegantly appointed room that includes window curtains and a pair of "Sconce glasses," two items included on the 1752 inventory of the Yellow Lodging Room at Stenton. Here again a servant boy attends to the hot water pot. This room is fitted with damask patterned wallpaper or textile panels and trimmed with gilt braid. Whether there was such decoration at Stenton is a question to address in further research. Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, plate 89, page 106.