Burton Constable, the Chinese Room

Slide 16 – The Chinese Room is fitted up throughout in the Chinese Fashion. Curious shaped chairs with dragon’s heads etc., cabinets filled with bric-a-brac and numerous specimens of rare and curious Chinese ornaments are scattered about the room on tables in profusion. Hanging from the ceiling in the centre of the room is a lantern with grotesque Chinese figures thereon. The chronicles of Burton fox hunting tell how Reynard, flying through the park and gardens being hard pressed, once took refuge amongst the strange furnishings of the Chinese Drawing Room, and was followed inside by the hounds and there killed. Such in brief is a description of Burton Constable and its owners, the present one being the forty fourth in descent, and let us express the hope that the estate may long continue in the same line, and be the ancestral home of the family who have so long possessed it.