The Rosen's Collection

Gray, earthenware with traces of pigment Chinese, Northern Wei dynasty (386-535 A.D.)

Birth Tray Scenes from Boccaccio's Teseide Oil on panel Italian, (Florentine) 15th century

The Majestic Music Room houses most of the Renaissance art the Rosens collected through the years

The magnificent rooms at the Rosen House are filled with the extraordinary collection Mr. and Mrs. Rosen amassed through the years: Renaissance, 18th century, and Eastern art objects and furnishings - tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, furniture, exquisite wall coverings, stained glass, Urbino Maiolica and a major jade collection. Entire rooms were imported from European palaces and country manors.

The 17th century Burgundian Library, exceptional for its vaulted, periwinkle-blue ceiling decorated with 13 biblical scenes. Walls and doors are decorated with 65 additional paintings.

Of special note is the lovely Reception Room, with exquisite hand painted 18th century wallpaper from China, and a suite of 18th century furniture, from a Venetian dressmaker's shop.

The restored Cabinet Room consisting of lacquered panels, created for the Palazzo Riccasoli in Turin in the middle of the 18th century. Very few of these once numerous lacquered rooms have survived, though they were very fashionable in England, France, Portugal and Germany as well as in Italy.

The Dining Room, lined in stunning 18th century Chinese wallpaper, made for the European market, contains a set of fourteen exquisite red-lacquered chairs, built by the English cabinetmaker Giles Grendey for the Duke of Infantado's castle of Lazcano near San Sebastian, Spain. Also in the Dining Room is an outstanding eight-fold Chinese screen with 40 panels of carved spinach-green jade set in an original carved teak frame. The screen, considered unique, depicts the Hills of Immortality, the paradise of Taoist religion.

Caramoor's Rosen House is really the most wonderful place ...
I was amazed by what is there, and what is unknown to the art world.
~ William Rieder, Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art

The palatial Music Room contains sculptures, paintings, 16th century tapestries, wrought iron, stained glass, and carved pilasters and an outstanding collection of Urbino Maiolica. Bergeres, sofas and tabourets are upholstered in a needlework cornucopia of fruit and foliage. Wonderful wood carving decorates the sgabelli, chests, credenzas, trestle tables and a magnificent cassapanca created for the marriage of Piero di Bracio Alberti and Cassandra Dino in Florence in 1599. Among the fine art works are a very fine 13th century Head of Kuan Yin, a painting by Lucas Cranach (1472-1533), tin-enameled terra cotta reliefs from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia (1437-1528).

In the Master Bedroom the huge gilded bed which once belonged to Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, (1568-1644) takes center stage. In this room, as elsewhere throughout the house, are displayed photographs and portraits of family members, reminding the visitor that the Rosen House was originally a family home.

La Loggia Bedroom 18th century Tempera on paper Panels from Villa La Loggia, near Turin, Italy	Eight Fold Jade Screen Carved on both sides Gilded Teak Frame 18th century, Chinese, Ch'ing Dinasty (Ch'ien Lung period)