Its decoration represents the survival - although merely symbolic - of the custom in court circles of imitating kings by dressing or making up in front of a retinue of valets in rooms intended for the purpose, and even receiving visitors in them. The oak wood wardrobe, finished with high crests adorned with gilded French 18th-century carvings, and the espadrilles and sables ostentatiously arranged on the central table, contributed to this idea.
