THINKING CHINESE

WALLPAPER: THE IMAGE OF CHINA IN BRITISH INTERIORS

Emile de Bruijn

Chinese wallpaper at Erddig, Wrexham, hung 1770s

Hanging scroll, possibly by Wang Chengpei, Lady Waiting in a Doorway, late eighteenth century

Late seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain vases and lacquer screen, at Petworth, West Sussex

The Witcombe cabinet, English, c. 1697, Holburne Museum, Bath

English mirror veneered with Chinese incised lacquer, c. 1680, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Frontispiece of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Confucius, philosopher of the Chinese), 1687

Indian chintz hanging, first quarter eighteenth century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Chinese wallpaper at Woburn Abbey, Buckinghamshire, reminiscent of ‘tree of life’ decoration

Chinese paintings used as wall decoration at the Pagodenburg, near Munich, 1716-19

Chinese prints and paintings used as wallpaper, at Milton Hall, Peterborough, hung in about 1750

Chinese picture on paper with strong linear perspective, used as wallpaper at Saltram, Devon, probably mid eighteenth century

English chinoiserie wallpaper, c. 1740, from a house in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, now Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Chinese block-printed wallpaper at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, hung 1752

Detail from Chinese wallpaper at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, hung 1771

Chinese wallpaper at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, hung late 1790s

Chinese wallpaper at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, hung in about 1830

Chinese wallpaper at Harewood House, Leeds, hung 1769

Chinese wallpaper at Belton House, Lincolnshire, hung in about 1840

The State Dressing Room at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire, hung with Chinese wallpaper in 1771

Chinese wallpaper at Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, hung in the early 1830s

Chinese wallpaper formerly at Beaudesert, Staffordshire, installed in the New York apartment of Condé Nast, 1924

Chinese wallpaper at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire, hung late 1920s, formerly at Kimberley Hall, Norfolk

Chinese wallpaper at Winfield House, London, installed c. 1969, formerly at Townley Hall, County Louth

Chinese wallpaper by Fromental at China Tang, the Dorchester, London