Gaming Pieces
Medium
Enameled and gilded hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
#1 & #2: 1/2 × 1 in. (3.8 × 2.5 cm) #3 & #4: 2 3/16 × 9/16 in. (5.6 × 1.4 cm)
Classification
porcelain
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136975
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This richly decorated gaming box ranks among the most exceptional works of art produced by the Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory during its short twenty-five-year existence. Mounted with gold plaques and painted with colored enamels and gilding, the box opens to reveal four small, similarly decorated porcelain containers. These smaller boxes are mounted with gold and set with diamonds; each, when opened, reveals two types of porcelain gambling chips. The boxes were painted according to a complex,...