A Baroque gaming board with 30 game pieces
A Baroque gaming board with 30 game pieces
Inlaid in walnut, maple, coloured and ebonised woods, and brass. Iron lock. The turned gaming pieces of ebonised wood and ivory. Hinged gaming board, richly inlaid throughout. With boards for chess and nine men's morris to the exterior and a backgammon board to the interior richly inlaid with floral and grotesque motifs, and a ducal crown with crossed swords to two fields. A crack running through one half of the board. Some game pieces cracked. H 7, W 43, D 43 cm, when extended: W 86, D 43 cm.
Germany / Saxony (?), 1st half 18th C.
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A similarly finely inlaid game board in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, localised to Vienna and attributed to Franz Anton Herrmann (Himmelheber, Spiele, Munich 1972, no. 54). Similarly opulent gaming sets were also made in Augsburg (ibid. no. 52ff). It may not be possible to localise the present work exactly, but a Saxon commission is plausible.
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A Baroque gaming board with 30 game pieces
Inlaid in walnut, maple, coloured and ebonised woods, and brass. Iron lock. The turned gaming pieces of ebonised wood and ivory. Hinged gaming board, richly inlaid throughout. With boards for chess and nine men's morris to the exterior and a backgammon board to the interior richly inlaid with floral and grotesque motifs, and a ducal crown with crossed swords to two fields. A crack running through one half of the board. Some game pieces cracked. H 7, W 43, D 43 cm, when extended: W 86, D 43 cm.
Germany / Saxony (?), 1st half 18th C.
Literature
A similarly finely inlaid game board in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, localised to Vienna and attributed to Franz Anton Herrmann (Himmelheber, Spiele, Munich 1972, no. 54). Similarly opulent gaming sets were also made in Augsburg (ibid. no. 52ff). It may not be possible to localise the present work exactly, but a Saxon commission is plausible.
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