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Lot Essay
The elaborate geometric and stereometric inlay of this magnificent games box follows designs of the Nuremburg and Augsburg masters of perspective, such as Lorenz Stöer (c.1555-1620), who issued a book of engravings entitled Geometria et Perspectiva in 1567.
One half of an almost identical games box is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Inv. 3792) and illustrated in the museum's exhibition catalogue Spielwelten der Kunst: Kunstkammerspiele, 1998, cat.81. It was first recorded at Schloss Ambras in the 1596 inventory of the estate of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tirolia (1529-95), who had a large collection of board games, with the games box now in the museum in Vienna surely forming a highlight.
One half of an almost identical games box is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Inv. 3792) and illustrated in the museum's exhibition catalogue Spielwelten der Kunst: Kunstkammerspiele, 1998, cat.81. It was first recorded at Schloss Ambras in the 1596 inventory of the estate of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tirolia (1529-95), who had a large collection of board games, with the games box now in the museum in Vienna surely forming a highlight.