Chinese Tea House


Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff and Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Brandenburg, Germany
1800s

Chinese Tea House with guided and heavily decorated pillars and statues. The figures are enjoying tea and the pillars are made to appear as palms that they are resting underneath. The building has sculptural tassels hanging and decorative scenes on top of the arched windows and below.

Georg Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff (German, 1699-1753), architect, Peter Joseph Lenné (German, 1789-1866), landscape architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German, 1781-1841), architect. Sanssouci, Chinese Tea House, general view. 19th century. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/AROGERSIG_10312566479

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