State Palaces and Gardens: Potsdam-Sanssouci - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1983 - 20 Pfennig

Buildings from the State Palaces and Gardens, Potsdam-Sanssouci With the depictions of buildings from the Potsdam-Sanssouci State Palaces and Gardens, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps. No special first-day cover envelope Special cancellation from September 20 to November 19, 1983 State Palaces and Gardens, Potsdam-Sanssouci 20-pfennig value: Chinese tea house The widespread in the late Rococo China fashion also had an effect on the architecture. It created pergodes, pavilions and garden statues, which were influenced by travel reports and crafts from the Far East. In the park Sonssouci built Johann Gottfried Büring (1723 to 1788), under whose direction the picture gallery was built next to the castle, from 1754 to 1757 a Chinese tea house. The exterior is adorned with life-size gilded sculptures, musicians entertaining a society in the three vestibules of the cloverleaf-shaped structure, coffee and tea-drinking, pineapple and melon-eating Chinese. In the round interior and the three side cabinets since 1961 is an exhibition of Chinese porcelain and European porcelain after East Asian suggestions. The roof and the exterior were restored in the sixties.