A variety of objects from different ages and cultures are displayed on the shelves by the fireplace; these include Nautilus shells, a Yucatan clay whistle, a pre-Columbian statue of a man and a dog, an Irish penal cross, a clay cup from the wreck of a seventeenth-century Spanish galleon, a Mexican clay whistle, bamboo coral from Hawaii, a Russian battle icon, African snuff bottles and pots, and Ashanti gold weights.
