This week we launch our Art in Miniature Exhibition.  The Treasury, which was opened in 2006 as part of the Brewhouse project, hosts and annually changing exhibition, and this year we are able to put on display a unique array of works of art, porcelain and even scientific instruments, all in miniature!

The most controversial item in the collection however is the Buckingham vases, pictured above.  Long believed at Burghley to have been made in London, possibly by the Duke of Buckingham at his Vauxhall glassworks due to an eighteenth century note inside one of the smaller vessels, the vases have recently been scientifically dated to 25 years before porcelain was known to be invented in Europe.

For more information on the vases please visit our dedicated information page or for more information about the exhibition please click here.

The exhibition previews to press and Burghley Friends, this Thursday 11th March at 6pm, and opens to the public along with the House on Saturday 20th March.