The Chinese House is one of the most delightful buildings in Sanssouci Park — a circular Rococo pavilion from 1757, covered in gilded figures of Chinese musicians and diners, with a canopy roof supported by palm-shaped columns and a gilded Mandarin perched on top. It is chinoiserie at its most exuberant: not a scholarly representation of China but an 18th-century European fantasy of what China might look like, executed with great skill and obvious pleasure.
Inside, a collection of East Asian and Meissen porcelain is displayed in the original furnishings. The building is small, the visit short, but the walk to it through the park past the Orangerie is one of the pleasures of Sanssouci. The Chinese House is east of the Neues Palais and can be combined with it in a single circuit of the park's western section.