The Old Summer Palace in Beijing, known as the "Garden of ten Thousand Gardens", was built during the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. When it comes to the Old Summer Palace, we have to talk about the Xiyanglou. Xiyanglou was designed and built by Italian missionary Soil Castiglione and others. Lang Shining was sent to China by the church in 1714 and named as Lang Shining in The Han Dynasty. He was appreciated by emperor Qianlong and ordered to build European-style garden buildings in the Old Summer Palace, which is now the Xiyanglou. The Qing emperors' preference for European style can be seen from this.

Since then, The European style was all the rage in the palace, and this popularity was also reflected in the making of furniture. In Chinese traditional culture, the biggest characteristic of furniture is to be beautiful with straight line, back of a chair, armrest appear with straight line, right Angle; The European Rococo decoration is just the opposite, in order to show curvy beauty, in addition to the common passion, there are vine lines, grape lines, etc., according to the emperor's instructions, the craftsmen in the building office gradually into the western characteristics in the furniture, enhance the artistic appeal, so that it appears unique.

The rococo style of a typical European Renaissance period of the qing dynasty rosewood passionflower grain big armchair, in the office is a qing dynasty palace created craftsman of European classic "passion" grain as the main decorative patterns, of rare rosewood as raw material, the brick carvings, medial valuable.such handiwork grass in the back of the chair and armrest, continuous curled up with a clear rococo style, make the armchair added many new idea on the basis of traditional furniture, looks very elegant. This chair has the composed atmosphere of furniture of Chinese red sandalwood already, contain the luxuriant appearance of Western style again, it is the on beautiful work that Chinese and Western combines well.

The Palace Museum is 98 cm high, 58 cm long and 50 cm wide

The chair is 98 cm high, 58 cm long and 50 cm wide. It is made of curved round wood for brain, armrest and joint stick. It is slightly curved against the back board. The panel of the seat is made in the hall. The whole body xiu black paint belongs to plain paint furniture, which is the most widely used furniture variety in Ming Dynasty.