The chairs, which evidently had not been changed since the beginning of the sixteenth century, showed the square shape with twisted columns and the low back covered with a fringed stuff, common to that period, and glorified by Raphael in his picture of the Madonna della Sedia.

The wood of these chairs was now black, but the gilt nails shone as if new, and the stuff, carefully renewed from time to time, was of an admirable shade of red.
The whole life of Flanders with its Spanish innovations was in this room.

The decanters and flasks on the dinner-table, with their graceful antique lines and swelling curves, had an air of respectability.

The glasses were those old goblets with stems and feet which may be seen in the pictures of the Dutch or Flemish school.

The dinner-service of faience, decorated with raised colored figures, in the manner of Bernard Palissy, came from the English manufactory of Wedgwood.