The China Room is one of the rooms on the ground floor in the White House, the home of the president of the United States. The White House's collection of state china is displayed there. The collection covers administrations from George Washington's Chinese export china to Bill Clinton's ivory, yellow and burnished gold china commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the White House's occupancy by John Adams. The room is primarily used by th...
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The China Room is one of the rooms on the ground floor in the White House, the home of the president of the United States. The White House's collection of state china is displayed there. The collection covers administrations from George Washington's Chinese export china to Bill Clinton's ivory, yellow and burnished gold china commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the White House's occupancy by John Adams. The room is primarily used by the First Lady for teas, meetings, and smaller receptions.
Until late 1902 when the room was refinished as a public entertainment space during renovations directed by Charles Follen McKim, this room, along with most of the ground floor of the residence, was used for household work and general storage. McKim rebuilt the room with details from the late Georgian period including robust cove moldings.
After becoming first lady in 1889, china painting enthusiast Mrs. Benjamin [Caroline Lavinia Scott] Harrison (1832-1892) began to gather and restore...
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