The Queen's Dining and Lunch Room, Buckingham Palace

Glass plate negative featuring two almost identical views of the Queen's Dining and Lunch Room, now known as the Chinese Dining Room, Buckingham Palace. The far wall is hung with a Chinoiserie panel by Robert Jones, from a set of four originally commissioned by George IV for the Brighton Pavilion (RCIN 755). There is a large flower-shaped chandelier, one of a pair (RCIN 2338), various furniture and three tall porcelain vases on stands, converted into oil lamps for Brighton Pavilion (RCIN 204). Over the far entrance there is a shaped gilt overdoor, with decorations of winged serpents (RCIN 756).

The Chinese Dining Room is one of a number of early Victorian Chinese room in the east wing of Buckingham Palace, re-using some of the salvaged fittings and furnishings from George IV's Brighton Pavilion. The Pavilion was sold by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Brighton town council in 1846.

The glass plate negative has been photographed showing the coated side and therefore the image appears laterally reversed. A print from this negative exists in the Collection, RCIN 2103815.