Chinese Tea House
by BÜRING, Johann Gottfried, Photo
The Chinese Tea House is a garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Frederick the Great had it built, about seven hundred metres southwest of the Sanssouci Summer Palace, to adorn his flower and vegetable garden. The garden architect was Johann Gottfried B�ring, who between 1755 and 1764 designed the pavilion in the then-popular style of Chinoiserie, a mixture of ornamental Rococo elements and parts of Chinese architecture.