# The Chinese Room in the Royal Palace, Berlin

- By: Eduard Gaertner (1801 – 1877)
- Date: 1850
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on white wove paper
- Classification: Interior views
- Dimensions: 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.)
- Credit line: Thaw Collection
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/229948)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d829908b97a593acc3bfa76376d26a28.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.