Monthly Archives: September 2011

And what is that? No. 6: a safe place for your knives

Posted on 25 September 2011 by Fairfax House

Sitting at either end of the early nineteenth-century sideboard in the Dining Room at Fairfax House are two elegant but enigmatic objects. Made of mahogany, elaborately carved, about two feet (60 cm) in height, they resemble funerary urns. They are … Continue reading →