The ceiling height and abundant light make the great room a natural display area for many of the couple's interests. The two stands beside the matching sofas reflect the owners' interest in both form and surface quality. One, with a dramatically shaped top and unusual inlay is made of cherry; the other with carved rosettes applied to the corners of the top is made completely of bird's-eye maple. Each stand retains its original surface. On the far wall to the right of the double doors to the patio, is the colorful J. H. Davis watercolor of seventeen-year-old Dorinda York painted in 1837, and pictured in Three American Watercolor Painters (1974), by Gail and Norbert Savage. A small theorem of fruit depicts a Canton ware bowl, circa 1830. Beneath is an octagonal-topped sewing stand with an inlaid and molded-edge lift top, inlaid facade, and with line-inlaid splayed legs and cross-stretchers. This rare stand is made of mahogany, retains its original surface, and was probably made in Newburyport, Mass. or Portsmouth, N.H., circa 1800. To the left of the door is one of three known "grandmother" clocks attributed to the Mulliken family of clockmakers. The others are pictured in Nutting's Furniture Treasury (1928) and Brooks Palmer's The American Clock (1928).
