Chinesisches Haus
The Chinese House is a garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. As I noted in my letter to my mother, Frederick the Great had it built, about seven hundred meters southwest of the Sanssouci Summer Palace, to adorn his flower and vegetable garden. The garden architect was Johnn Gottfried Büring, who between 1755 and 1764 designed the pavilion in the then-popular style of Chinoiserie, a mixture of ornamental rococo elements and parts of Oriental architecture. Two of my three pictures of the gardens are of the Chinese musicians that stand around the edge of the building.


Dutch quarter
Looking out through a window screen or curtain
Side door with topiary
Top deck of the boat