Colonial Room

COLONIAL ROOM

This room was thoroughly researched in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It features colonial colors, chiefly wedgewood blue, burnt orange and silver, which hint of the Spanish period. Gold rosettes around the room pick up the colors of the sconces and chandeliers, which turned out to be sterling silver when years of tarnish were removed.

Elements of the motif were picked up in the stenciled design between the arches. Colonial-style chairs were substituted for the russet colored benches in the front row for period effect.

Here, as in the case of all the period rooms, the color scheme is carried into the adjoining anterooms. The columns on either side of the Master’s chair in the East provide a marbleized effect, although they are made of plaster.