Chinese wallpaper was a popular luxury good made by skilled Chinese artisans for European markets beginning in the mid-18th century. From the late-19th century onwards, American collectors, like Doris Duke, acquired Chinese paper found in the European markets.
One of these patterns on the wall of the Music Room was originally installed in Clyne Castle, an 18th century Welsh country house near Swansea. Doris purchased this wallpaper from an auction in Paris between 1958 and 1959 and had it installed in the Music Room sometime in the 1960s.
