photograph of current display in the Grand Vestibule

Grand Vestibule: The British Monarchy and the World

The Grand Vestibule at Windsor Castle reflects interaction between the monarchy and the wider world

      JAPAN [ASIA]

      Box and cover

      late eighteenth to early nineteenth century

      RCIN 70645

      Rectangular box, with flanged rim to accommodate the cover, the top slightly domed and rounded at the edge and corners. Lacquered black, and painted over the top and sides in shades of gold, with a leafy vine scroll with superimposed prunus spray roundels; the inside plain black.

      Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.

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