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| | Arts, Crafts, Paintings, Sculpture, Armoury, Furniture, Durham, UK - Raby Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The 14th century Kitchen has a massive array of Victorian copper cooking utensils, of which the many intriguingly shaped jelly and pâté moulds are a particular favourite. |
 | | The Library, decorated with fox emblems on pelmets, cornices and fireplace friezes, dated from the 1820's, houses multi-tiered 18th century porcelain Chinese pagodas (shown in top picture) of the Ch'ien Lung period, where ornaments such as those were used as ballast when tea was brought from China. |
 | | The Raby Tapestry on the floor of Barons' Hall was worked by Lady Grace Fitzroy, wife of the 1st Earl of Darlington and grand-daughter of Charles II and Barbara Villiers. |
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