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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A SOUTH GERMAN ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY GAMES BOARD
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Decorated throughout with foliage, fabulous creatures and musician putti, one surface inlaid as a chess board, the interior for backgammon, the latter with landscape cartouches, losses, on an associated stand
The board 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep closed
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Decorated throughout with foliage, fabulous creatures and musician putti, one surface inlaid as a chess board, the interior for backgammon, the latter with landscape cartouches, losses, on an associated stand
The board 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep closed
Provenance
With E.T. Biggs and Sons, Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Baronness Marie-Louise von Callenberg (d.1982) and thence by descent.
Baronness Marie-Louise von Callenberg (d.1982) and thence by descent.
Special notice
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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Celia Harvey
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