Photo: Anthony Parkinson / Courtesy of National Trust images1/12“The Library was decorated by John Fowler in the early 1970s, who chose green—associated with learning and with calm—as the main color,” says Sophie Chessum of the pre-blaze room pictured here. “The curtains and upholstery on the William IV mahogany sofa were of his own bold leaf design, as was the carpet, with its intertwined ribbon decoration.”
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images2/12The library post-fire. Speaker Onslow’s portrait, painted by William Hogarth and his father, survived the disaster but has since been removed.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images3/12“The use of the room is reflected in the plaster decoration,” explains Chessum. “The overmantel has roundels containing depictions of the great Greek thinkers Homer and Sophocles.”
Photo: Anthony Parkinson / Courtesy of National Trust images4/12A folding screen with Victorian and Edwardian photographs of the Onslow family also made it through the blaze fairly unscathed.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images5/12“[This] oval-looking glass is surmounted by the figure of an owl, which is emblematic of the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena,” notes Chessum.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images6/12A South Korean water dropper, used while writing characters or painting, was found soon after the fire. The piece is hundreds of years old.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images7/12This jade wine cup is more than 200 years old and was brought to Clandon from China.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images8/12A volunteer cleans a fragment.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson / Courtesy of National Trust images9/12The former Prince Regent Room, located on the first floor.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson / Courtesy of National Trust images10/12The State Dining Room, also on the first floor.
Photo: James Dobson / Courtesy of National Trust images11/12A surviving Meissen porcelain pigeon, made in the 18th century.
Photo: Anthony Parkinson / Courtesy of National Trust images12/12The ground floor’s Hunting Room, in its previous state.
