The Chinese Room in the Royal Palace, Berlin
date: label: Date
content: 1850
name: label: Artist
content: Eduard Gaertner, 1801 – 1877
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This Chinese Room reflects the royal taste and patronage in the 1820s and 1830s Berlin. Large panels of highly decorative hand-painted Chinese paper, with borders of gold Chinese characters on a blue background, line the walls. Black lacquered furniture upholstered in bright yellow silk, a curving banquette by Birkenholtz covered in blue damask and two Renaissance Revival chairs covered in rose velvet provide seating. A japanned cabinet is in partial view in the right foreground; large Chinese porcelains are on display; and a grand chandelier hangs from a whimsically painted ceiling evoking the heavens. The bare floor is of blond parquet.
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Thaw Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2007-27-48
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: Frame H x W x D: 42.2 x 60.3 x 2.5 cm (17 5/8 x 23 3/4 x 1 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 27.2 x 36.3 cm (10 11/16 x 14 5/16 in.)