A PAINT-DECORATED GAMEBOARD

AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY

细节

A PAINT-DECORATED GAMEBOARD
American, 19th century
The rectangular form with cream-painted ground centering a gameboard of alternating black and cream-painted squares outlined in red line-decoration and each centering a gold-painted number, the entire playing surface outlined in red, and each corner decorated with a gold-painted rosette on cream or black-painted ground
157/8x161/8in.

拍品专文

A gameboard with number-painted squares is illustrated in Wendel, Gameboards of North America (New York, 1986), p. 62. According to Wendel, the squares had painted numbers applied to them so players could indicate their moves by mail.