Lord Brutes bedroom This walnut-panelled bathroom with 36 different types of marble
Lord Brutes bedroom This walnut-panelled bathroom with 36 different types of marble insets and highly decorated hand-basin is unique, the only one that Burges is known to have designed. The hand-basin, which is set into a marble slab, is particularly splendid: "A mermaid combs her hair in the bottom of the bowl and monsters swim above her under an arcade of stone arches". Mermaids were another of Burges's favourite motifs. Flush water closet. The sanitary engineer George Jennings supplied the Walter closet that adjoins the bathroom. Lord Brutes bedroom ceiling. The most important and ingenious feature of the ceiling is that it contains "189 bevelled glass mirrors ... designed to reflect Bute's first name (John) in Greek in both true and mirror images". You will see Greek letters, which of course, refer not just to the Marquess himself but also, and more significantly, to John the Baptist. The fireplace with a bronze figure of John the Baptist, showing mantelpiece, columns, and painted wall and ceiling decorations. The most spectacular item in the room is the bronze of John the Baptist, "partly gilded, partly oxidised and partly silvered the eyes set with onyx, the robe with copper inlays".
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