The hangings are of an alluring chinoiserie chintz, and there are several Chinese color prints framed and hanging in the narrow panels between the front windows.
"The House in Good Taste"
Elsie de Wolfe
Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer has a similar bed covered with a chinoiserie chintz.
"The House in Good Taste"
Elsie de Wolfe
He needs to show that fine art does not imitate, and points out that Japanese painting, of which, at that time, everybody was talking, does not concern itself with Japan, and that the Japan we imagine for ourselves with the help of willow-pattern plates and the drawings of Hokusai is no more real in one sense and no less real in another than the slit-eyed girl of Gautier's "chinoiserie," who lives in a porcelain tower above the Yellow River and the long-necked cormorants.
"Oscar Wilde A Critical Study"
Arthur Ransome