<Li> The State Drawing Room also called The Temple Room . Is to the west of The Marble Saloon is about 30 by 40 feet (12 m), with an apse in the centre of the north wall, there are doors at each end of the side walls, though only the northern pair are real, and the other two are false doors . The plaster ceiling is probably a design of Valdrè . Decorated in neo-classical style with a symmetrical arrangement of nereids, tazzas, paterae and other motifs, originally the details were gilt but this was replaced by silver in 1965 restoration . The ceiling dates from 1776 and was executed by James Lovell . The original marble fireplace dated 1777 was sold in 1922 and is now in Spain at the headquarters of Grupo Santander, it contains an antique alabaster bas - relief from Egypt of a Sacrifice to Bacchus . The north wall has an engaged fluted Corinthian columns of wood flanking the apse and a further two within it . There are quarter columns in the corners of the room . The walls used to be hung with red Damask and the finest paintings in the collection hung on the walls . There were in 1838 fifty two paintings hanging on the walls, including: Helena Fourment by Rubens . She was his second wife, now in the Barber Institute; The Exposition of Moses by Nicholas Poussin now in the Ashmolean Museum; The Finding of Moses by Salvator Rosa now in The Detroit Institute of Arts; Assumption of the Virgin by Murillo now in the Wallace Collection; Philip Baptising the Eunuch by Albert Cuyp now at Anglesey Abbey; View of a Village by David Teniers the Younger now in the National Gallery and The Persian Sybil by Domenichino now in the Wallace Collection; several of these works were acquired at the sale of the Orleans Collection . Also the finest pieces of Sèvres porcelain of the over 200 in the collection used to be displayed in this room, but these were sold in 1848 . The furnishings included several pieces from the Doge's Palace which are now in other British collections . They include an hexagonal side table, the top inlaid with various marbles in the Wallace Collection, two gilt gesso side tables . One is in the V&A the other at Sudeley Castle . </Li> <Li> The State Dining Room is 75 by 25 feet (22.9 by 7.6 m). Located to the west of The State Drawing Room, created in the 1740s the probable architect being either Henry Flitcroft or' Capability' Brown . The Stowe House Preservation Trust are currently fundraising to restore this room to its former magnificence . This was The State Gallery until 1817 when it assumed its current name . The ceiling has an elaborate plaster entablature supporting a deep cove, this has painted decoration dated 1747 by Francesco Sleter, including Hebe feeding Jupiter's Eagle east, Cupid playing with two Graces north, Cupid asleep with two Graces south and Diana and her Hounds west, the spaces between these paintings are decorated with animals including swans and their cygnets, pigeons and rabbits . There are three large octagonal paintings on the central flat of the ceiling . These are probably early 19th century replacements for the original by Robert Jones . They are Venus disarming Cupid east, Venus on her Chariot, crowned by Cupid and attended by the Three Graces centre and Venus at her Toilet, attended by the Graces west . There are also eight smaller octagonal panels depicting pairs of vases and classical reliefs . The areas between these paintings are decorated with painted acanthus and all the paintings are bordered by white and gilt plaster beams decorated in guilloché . The two chimneypieces on the north wall date from the 1920s the original pair were sold in 1922 and are now at Benham Park, these were of white and yellow Siena marbles, with elaborately carved wooded overmantels that contained paintings now in America, these are Goddess conducting Learning east and Mercury conducting Tragedy and Comedy to Parnassus . There are four paintings above the two doors in the west and east walls of male and female centaurs with Bacchic emblems and lyres, probably painted by Robert Jones . The walls used to be hung with five Brussels tapestries commissioned by Viscount Cobham from O. Leyneir, they depict the triumph of classical deities: Ceres, Bacchus, Neptune, Mars and Diana, sold in 1921 they are now in Switzerland . The dining table when fully extended was 65 feet (20 m) long . The walls are hung with various portraits of people associated with the house and family that have been acquired over the years, these are, on the east wall Caroline Harvey wife of the 3rd Duke by Sir Francis Grant, donated by the granddaughter of the sitter, The Hon . Mrs. Thomas Close - Smith (1886 - 1972) on her death in 1972; above the eastern fireplace Queen Caroline of Ansbach from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the centre of the north wall Lady Christian Lyttelton the sister of Viscount Cobham, a copy of a portrait by Kneller; over the western fireplace King George II from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller; and on the west wall A Lady in Eastern Costume on a Terrace with a Peacock possibly Lady Hester Stanhope by James Northcote, she was the great - granddaughter of Sir Richard Temple 3rd Baronet . </Li> <Li> The Small Tapestry Dining Room now known as The Snug, is located to the west of The State Dining Room, originally dating from the late 1750s but having undergone drastic reconstruction little of the original decoration survives . Only the gilt cornice and plaster frieze, and the frames that enclosed the tapestries are still in place, the elaborate marble chimneypiece and its carved - wooden overmantel that contained an oval portrait of Lord Cobham dressed in armour by Sir Godfrey Kneller, were sold in 1922 . The four tapestries sold in 1921 were from Brussels and depicted the Arts of War and were designed by Lambert de Hondt the Younger . The largest tapestry depicted the Battle of Wijnendale and included a depiction of Lord Cobham who was one of Marlborough's generals at the battle . The ceiling was destroyed in 1935 when the western pavilion of the south front was reconstructed due to structural problems . </Li> <Li> The Garter Room now known as "The Servery", which served as the State Bedroom is to the west of The Small Tapestry Dining Room . Designed by Borra in 1755 and completed over the next five years . None of the original decoration survived the reconstruction of the west pavilion in 1935 . There is a reconstruction of the original plaster ceiling with its Garter insignia in the centre . The most important painting in the room, that used to hang on the east wall, was Joshua Reynolds's Marquess of Granby, now in the collection of the National Army Museum, Earl Temple's nephew Richard Grenville was the Marquess's Aide - de-camp during the Seven Years' War . The magnificent state bed which was set up in the room in 1759 - 60 and was nearly 15 feet (4.6 m) in height, survives in the Lady Lever Art Gallery . It used to be in the recess on the west wall . The bed was moved to the Rembrandt Room for Queen Victoria's visit . The two elaborately carved and gilt robe chests, one of gophir the other of sandalwood that used to stand on the north wall flanking the white marble fireplace are now in the Wallace Collection . The room takes up the space behind the two western tripartite windows of the South Front, the corners of the room prior to 1935 contained separate closets . The south - western closet was called the Japan Closet and was decorated in a Japanese style, this used to contain the Chandos Jewels finally sold for nearly £ 10,000 by Lady Kinloss in 1929, also the room used to have a staircase to the dressing room on the floor above . The south - eastern closet was called the Shakespeare Closet because it contained the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, also from this room and now in the National Gallery, London, are two paintings, a portrait of Martin Luther which used to be ascribed to Hans Holbein the Younger and Francesco Raibolini's portrait of Bartolomeo Bianchini . The north - east closet was a water - closet . In the niches in the walls that flank the recess between the two southern closets used to be displayed a collection 120 pieces of Maiolica . One of the finest pieces a dish painted with St. Thomas touching Christ's wound from Deruta is now in the Courtauld Institute of Art . </Li>

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