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]

      Pair of round boxes and covers

      late eighteenth to early nineteenth century

      RCIN 70646

      Pair of circular boxes, with flanged metal liner to the rim to accommodate the matching cover, and lined with gold and orange brocade. Evidently en suite with the rectangular document box (RCIN 70645), the gently domed, black-lacquered top and sides painted in gold, with a vine scroll with superimposed prunus flowers and a prunus spray roundel.

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

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