Grand Vestibule: The British Monarchy and the World
The Grand Vestibule at Windsor Castle reflects interaction between the monarchy and the wider world
Box and cover
late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuryRCIN 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.