Japanese gazebo with ibis

View of a summer house in Chinese style The painting is watercolours on paper, from the collection of the Lubomirscy, the former owners of the castle, behind a glass, it depicts a Chinese-style summer house. Princess Lubomirska, wife of marshal Lubomirski, commissioned a series of such depictions to show how to arrange summer houses and pavilions in Chinese style, which was popular until the end of the 18th century. This is confirmed by descriptions of these depictions in the castle inventory list of 1802. The painting depicts a summer house with a double pagoda roof on quite a high base foundation; it is clad in wood decorated in a floral pattern. The four pillars supporting the roof are made of four pine trunks, the intertwined branches of which form the roof of the house. Two stone stairs lead to the summer house; they are finished semi-circularly. Between the pillars (pine trunks) there is a low wooden banister. On the roof, among the pine branches, are ibes. All pictures from the series are framed the same way – wooden, with overlaid braidwork and rosettes in the corners; most likely made in Vienna. The paintings stem from the end of the 18th/ beginning of the 19th century, and were most probably made in China as reference templates. They are displayed in the bedroom of the Chinese Apartment, in the first floor of the castle of Łańcut.