Peacock Room Sackler Gallery Gold Mural Blue Porcelain Washington DC United States // WASHINGTON DC, United States — Gilded shelving displaying blue and white Chinese porcelain frames a large gold mural of two fighting peacocks inside the Peacock Room at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Originally designed by American artist James McNeill Whistler between 1876 and 1877 as a London dining room, the space exemplifies the Anglo-Japanese Aesthetic movement. The central gold leaf mural, titled "Art and Money; or, The Story of the Room," allegorically depicts a fierce financial disput

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