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Phra Thinang (Royal Residence) Aisawan Thiphya-Art (The divine seat of personal freedom)
Phra Thinang Aisawan Thiphya-Art is a Thai-style pavilion with four porches and a spired roof built by King Chulalongkorn
in the middle of of an outer pond in 1876. It is a copy of the Phra Thinang Aphonphimok Prasat in Grand Palace, which was built by his father,
King Mongkut, as a pavilion for changings regalia before mounting a palanquin. King Chulalongkorn named this building Aisawan Thiphya-Art after King Prasat Thong's original pavilion.
This pavilion now houses a bronze statue of King Chulalongkorn in the uniform of a Field Marshal which was set up by his son King Vajaravudh (Rama VI).
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