Mela Koehler (Austrian, Vienna 1885–1960 Stockholm)

Date: 1911
Accession Number: WW.362

The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).

François-Alexander Chasteau (French, Paris, recorded 1741–84)

Date: 1752–53
Accession Number: 2002.521.1a, b, .2a, b

The Powel Room was originally located on the second story of a house that still stands today at 244 South Third Street in Philadelphia. The room is furnished with superb examples of Philadelphia Rococo-style furniture of the type that the Powels might have owned. 

The Marimion Room was the principal parlor of Marmion, a plantation house built around 1756 by the Fitzhugh family of Virginia. The room's elaborate painting was executed in the 1770s and is one of the most ambitious decorative schemes to survive from eighteenth-century America.

Gerrit Boverhof (Dutch, Steenwijk 1696–1772 Amsterdam, master 1721)

Date: 1764
Accession Number: 2017.355a–c

The Van Rensselaer Hall was one of the largest and most elaborate rooms built in prerevolutionary America. The rare hand-painted English wallpaper and the magnificently carved woodwork create an elegant American Wing gallery.

Date: third quarter 17th century
Accession Number: 29.23.1

Date: 1850–60
Accession Number: 61.230