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 centuryRCIN 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.
