Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-31


ground. This handsome room. lonk.
ing rom great bay-window over the
Rome park, Is not numbered with fur
niture, but couple Of Gouthier cabi.
nets IN 1t could hardly be matched in
europe. The talk of Windsor assesses
tneir value at el200o but their
PerIection,, like that of the
bronzes, the candelabra, and other
ornaments surpass description,
Two OF the pictures which adorn the
walls of the white draw
ing room represent the o une~,
and the late prince consort at
the period of their wedding. The
bridegroom wears riileman's dress of
dark green, and 10 every inch the
ideal knight" young, handsome. ele-
CANT aud strong-altogether as unlike
the middle-aged gentleman whom rer.
sons now middle-aged themselves
recoilect as jolting along on his high.
1rotting horse as can well be imagined.
Inc high-trotter was an ordinance of
the physician and doubtlessly afforded
much healthy exercise. There are i'm
This room, also, fine pictures of Queen
| Charlotte, of Frederick, prince of
Wales, by Ramsay, and of the present
prince OF Wales as child, by Winter.
natter, whose eminently courtly pic
lures, interesting of course from the
SUBJECTS they represent, are irritating
when considered as works of art.
Rich In mosaics and in the magnifi
cent porcelain plaques with
which the Gouthier cabinets are
inlaid, the white drawing-room
charms the eye, except when it is cast
down on the rich velvet-pile carpet,
designed In the atrocious taste of forty
or iiveand forty years ago, when peo-
pie were made to walk on rose bushes
and hollyhocks. and a thousand gay
colors stared upward from the floor.
Next to the little used white draw
lng.room is the green drawiug-room.
with great panels of green-tlowered
satin let into the walls. The rich
hangihgs and handsome furniture,
even the superb fireplace, of this GEN.
trail drawing-room, are lost sight of i'm
the great wealth of Sevres contained
in the various cabinets. The quantity
of this rare porcelain Is almost as re.
markable as its quality. Most impor-
tant of all is the service made for Louis
NNI., which afterwards became the
property of George ~. No such set
of bleu du roi exists elsewhere. The
coor is absolutely perfect, and the
paintings are by the most eminent
hands ever employed at the royal por-
celain mandatory. This wonderful
service is not overdone with the blaze
of color and the rich, heavy gliding
peculiar to Sevres. Inside the gilt
rim, with its inner band of bleu du
roi, is PLAIN white zone, within which
Is the picture framed as il were in
plain gold. There is another peculiar
ity about this grand service-it is
complete with the very triflng excep-
tion of n couple of plates, broken or
stolen in the time of George ~, who
sometimes used part of 1t at breakfast
STRAY plates and other pieces purport-
ing to have formed part of this famous
set find their way from time 10 time
into auction rooms, and fetch enOr-
nous prices; but the only theory that
can be set up concerning them is that
they are rejected pieces, for the whole
service at Windsor is complete, with
the exception noted, rs supplied to the
French king. Other wonderful pieces
of Sevres are ensconced in the cabi-
net of the green drawing-room-ser
vices decorated with flowers and with
animals, and divinely painted. There
are garnitures de cheminee and huge
bowls by dozens, all of the very finest
kind and the hest period, the later
days of Louis Nv, and tine early ones
of his hapless successor. Connoisseurs
skilled in china have estimated the
value Of the contents of the green draw
ing-room at two hundred thousand
pounds; this must be as rough an es-
| innate as that of the famous gold plate,
said to be worth millions, and which
certainly does weigh seven tons at
the least. BEYOND this drawing-room
the queen rarely goes, except on the
occasion of a state dinner, when the
royal dining room in the prince of
Wales tower is occupied.
The crimson drawing-room is gener-
ally occupied by the ladies and gentle
men of the household, and to eyes
greedy of color is more attractive than
either the green or white rooms. Grim
son satin CLOVIS on the walls and on
the furniture, and throws into strong
relief the magnificent malachite vase,
presented to the queen by the Emperor
Nicholas of Russia, and several beau
tiful cabinets iulaid with Fiorentine
mosaic. Here, too, is the grand piano
forte on which the queen received her
first lessons, as well rs u bevy of Win
| anu u goou vi thV
duke of Kent, by Beechey.
Immediately beyond TINS crimson
room is the royal dining-room, only
used on state occasions and capable of
accommodating large party ofguests.
Everything In this apartment is In the
simplest possible style. The
! plain gilt moldings and
handsome rosewood form Its only dec.
grafton, excepting the wlne.col0r de-
signed by Flachsman for George ~.
when prinoe-regent, This is an ex-
traordinary w0rB, several feet In
length. Hacehanalian groups dance
70 uII It's Swelling port" Fruit, rep.
! dies aud animals cling to the rim, and
the common objects of the seashore
! incrust the base. How such richly
confused work of art was evolved from
the severe imagination of Flachsman
must forever remain a mystery.
At the other end of the corridor, just
over the queens entrance to the cas-
tie, is an octagorlhl room, sober In tone
and plain almost to the exaggeration
of pIainness in its decoration. II is
lined with oak and contains only three
objects Of q pictorial character. Two
of these arc in Gobelins tapestry and
| represent the appetizing subject oil
boar-hunt. The third Is Of quite
another character; 1t is portrait