I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Japanese Gaming Table
c.1870
Japanese inlaid teakwood circular table. Includes a inlay of geometric motifs including "rising sun" design. Raised on a cylindrical post with four scalloped braces at the top and circular, molded base. Old gilt edge to top. Obtained by Secretary Seward on trip around the world while in Japan.
