Chinese wallpaper
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1830
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Place of origin
Guangzhou
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1422110
Summary
Chinese bird-and-flower wallpaper, hand-painted with garden scenery including flowering trees and other plants, jardinières, rocks, birds and insects on an undulating foreground and against an off-white background. The wallpaper hangs in the State Bedroom.
Provenance
The wallpaper was hung following the building of Penrhyn Castle in the early 1830s.