Twenty four turned fruitwood gaming pieces with various motifs - image-1
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Lot 1129 Dα

Twenty four turned fruitwood gaming pieces with various motifs

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 16:30 - Selected Works of Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.076 € (incl. premium)

Twenty four turned fruitwood gaming pieces with various motifs

Fruitwood and ebonised fruitwood gaming pieces with portraits of kings and queens, allegories of war and peace treaties, and various religious and genre scenes. Nine pieces monogrammed MB (some conjoined) for Martin Brunner, one monogrammed W for Peter Paul Werner. H 1.5 cm, D 7.1 - 7.3 cm.
1st half 18th C.

Literature

Cf. Zangs/Holländer (ed.), Mit Glück und Verstand, Aachen 1994, no. E 25.
Cf. these motifs in: Himmelheber, Spiele, Munich, 1972, cat. no. 240, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299.

Exhibitions

Mit Gück und Verstand, Schloss Rheydt, Münchengladbach, 1994