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| The marble Diana, considerably restored,
is of the Hellenistic period. The statue surmounts a Roman tombstone commemorating
a girl of sixteen. On a marble pedestal stands a Renaissance-costumed bronze,
Loves Coronet, by Sir William Reynolds-Stephens (18621943),
the Arts-and-Crafts sculptor, dated 1902 and exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1903. On the table opposite is a new sculpture, of a racehorse (Remittance
Man) and his companion, Nobby, the sheep, by Philip Blacker. The engraved glass, in an illuminated case, is by Laurence Whistler, and was one of the 2nd Lord Faringdons last additions to the Buscot collection. The pair of giltwood side-tables are George III, in the Italian neo-classical taste. On one are displayed two alabaster canopic jars from Egypt; beneath it stands a large Caltagirone vase from Sicily, dated 1730, while an oriental Imari vase stands beneath the other. The Wedgwood pink lustre tea service on a shelf near the entrance to the hall was painted by Thérèse Lessore (18841955), the wife of the painter W R Sickert. The picture immediately above, Hop-Pickers (141), was painted by her as well. |