Room 15
For the colours of the State Rooms were chosen Marmorino, a technique that mixes colour into the plaster, before it is applied to the wall. Embedding the colour in this way gives a deep, richly chromatic surface that changes according to the light.
Wedgwood
The large Wedgwood vase in the centre of the room is made of black basalt. At the time this was a new technique in porcelain, giving the appearance of basalt but with a longer lasting shine.
Antonio de Bittio
The two oil paintings on easels are by a little-known painter from Belluno called Antonio de Bittio. He spent his whole life working for Frederick Hervey, the Earl-Bishop of Bristol. This cultured, much-travelled man commissioned these two vistas by de Bittio. These depict the famous natural phenomena Giants Causeway and Fingail’s Cave, in Ireland and Scotland respectively.
Richard Riemerschmidt
On the other side of the door, the wooden cabinet and the chair are designed by the Bavarian, Richard Riemerschmidt for the Dresden workshops in 1903. He was a leading designer of the modernist movement, equal in imagination and flare to anyone either in Paris and or Vienna.