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==History==
The Peacock Room was originally designed as a dinningdining room in the townhouse located at {{nowrap|49 Prince's Gate}} in the neighbourhood of [[Kensington]] in [[London]], and owned by the British shipping magnate [[Frederick Richards Leyland]].<ref name="brochure">{{cite book |last1=Merrill |first1=Linda |year=2000 |title=Whistler's Peacock Room |url=http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/peacock/images/PeacockRoom.pdf |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=[[Freer Gallery of Art]] |accessdate=2014-04-30 }}</ref> Leyland engaged the British architect [[Richard Norman Shaw]] to remodel and redecorate his home.<ref name="schultz">{{cite book |last1=Schulz |first1=Max F |year=1985 |title=Paradise Preserved: Recreations of Eden in Eighteenth– and Nineteenth– Century England |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=x-xWNgFtcmAC |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=306 |isbn=9780521301732 |lccn=85005959 |oclc=11867731 |laysummary=http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/85005959.html |accessdate=2014-04-30 }}</ref> Shaw entrusted the remodelling of the dining room to {{nowrap|[[Thomas Jeckyll]]}}, another British architect experienced in the [[Anglo-Japanese style]].<ref name="schultz"/><ref name="brochure"/> Jeckyll conceived the dining room as a ''Porsellanzimmer'' (porcelain room).
 
He covered the walls with 6th-century wall hangings of ''[[Cuir de Cordoue]]'' that had been originally brought to England as part of the dowry of [[Catherine of Aragon]]. They were painted with her heraldic device, the open pomegranate, and a series of red roses, [[Tudor rose]]s, to symbolise her union with [[Henry VIII]]. They had hung on the walls of a [[Tudor architecture|Tudor style house]] in [[Norfolk]] for centuries, before they were bought by Leyland for £1,000.<ref name="peters">{{cite book |last1=Peters |first1=Lisa N |year=1996 |title=James McNeill Whistler |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HewJAAAACAAJ |location=New York City |publisher=Smithmark |page=37 |isbn=9781880908709 |oclc=40598527 |accessdate=2014-04-30 }}</ref><ref name="wayne">{{cite web |url=http://www.peacockroom.wayne.edu/history-london |title=The Story of the Beautiful |last= |first= |author=[[Freer Gallery of Art]] |author2=[[Arthur M. Sackler Gallery]] |author3=[[Wayne State University]]'s Library System |year=2014 |at=Visual History > In London |accessdate=2014-04-30 }}</ref><ref name="schultz"/> Against these walls, Jekyll constructed an intricate lattice framework of engraved spindled walnut shelves that held Leyland’s collection of [[Chinese porcelain|Chinese]] [[blue and white porcelain]], mostly from the [[Kangxi transitional porcelain|Kangxi era]] of the [[Qing dynasty]].<ref name="wayne"/><ref name="schultz"/>
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