Classically simple

These are two further images from the house shown in yesterday's post. The top is of the entrance hall, with a mirror made from a mansard window, with C19th French iron urns on the chimneypiece. The reproduction bas-relief depicts pugilists.

The lower picture shows an Empire-style chimneypiece, with a wooden pig on the shelf.

OK, ok: mansard window - one which is set in a sloping roof, ("dormer" in today's parlance); pugilist - no surprise here, given the image - a boxer, usually professional.

All these images are a tear out from House & Garden, and are from a house in Madrid, in an early nineteenth century building in an afrancesado style, so it is appropriate that the decoration pays homage to historical elements of French design.