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LOT 2082
Post Medieval Stained and Natural Wooden Gaming Pieces
SOUTHERN GERMANY, NUREMBERG, 18TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (320 grams total, 51 mm each).
Turned wooden counters in natural and dark-stained versions; some of the darker type with the bust of a Holy Roman Emperor to one face and a prospect of a city (Vienna, Danzig, etc.), as well as comic figures and scenes; the lighter group with similar motifs as well as hunting and other scenes.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Europe.
Acquired on the English art market.
Similar game pieces are often signed ‘PHM’ for Philipp Heinrich Müller (1654-1719). There are eleven stained pear wood pieces and ten natural pear-wood pieces. The game pieces are decorated with busts, commemorative medals, cities, figural scenes including interiors, daily life and great battles, German / Austrian cities and figures from the engravings of Jacques Callot (1592-1635).
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