Game box
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gilt, Lacquer, Wood
Measurements
370 mm (Length); 300 mm (W); 120 mm (H)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1332914
Summary
A Chinese Export octagonal games box, with four gilt feet. Lid shows oriental town scene, pagodas and boats, figures playing and drinking tea. Inside are seven boxes with scenes of figures with fans and seven lacquer trays, two of which have red lozenge or diamond pattern and one with 'GAME' written on.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.