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In 1983, the Postal Service of the German Democratic Republic (commonly known as East Germany) issued a set of stamps depicting the castles and other buildings of Sanssouci Park, the country's largest World Heritage Site.
The Chinese Tea Pavilion is only a tiny building, but it deserves to be listed together with famous castles like Sanssouci since it is absolutely marvelous.
The Pavilion was ordered by King Frederick the Great and was built in 1764 by garden architect Johnn Gottfried Büring in the then-popular Chinoiserie style. Chinoiserie was a mixture of ornamental rococo elements and parts of Oriental architecture. It wasn't really Chinese, but for 18th century Europeans, everything Asian was "Chinese" – as for the 18th century Chinese, everything European was "Dutch."
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