The green-painted walls of the Maid-of-Honour’s Room – a room with a single window overlooking the Catherine Park originally intended for palace servants – set off a gilded stucco frieze and doors with a colourful ornamental painted decoration. The white faience stove, created to Stasov’s design in the 1820s, is decorated by a bas-relief and vase in the Classical style. The room is furnished with chairs made to a design by Charles Cameron and an elegant lady’s writing-desk from the late eighteenth century with verre églomisé insets. It also contains paintings by Flemish, French, Italian and Dutch artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries