Lot 1128 - A206 Decorative Arts - jeudi, 21. septembre 2023, 10h00
FINE AND RARE GAMES BOX FOR CHESS AND TRICTRAC WITH INLAYS IN RELIEF
Provenance: Swiss private collection, purchased in the English trade in 1989.
Relief inlays or inlays, which show a plastic dimension in addition to the flat one, are a special feature of the workshops from the free imperial city of Eger (today's Czech Republic). Wood of different thicknesses was used, carved in relief, sometimes dyed and assembled into inlaid pictures. Wonderful caskets, game boxes and small cabinets were created, which enjoyed great popularity among the European nobility and at the courts. Such relief inlays are considered to be the sole distinguishing feature of the work of the Cheb workshops, such that the name "Cheb cabinets" or "Cheb boxes" became established for them.
A comparable game box is illustrated at: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Worlds of Art. Art chamber games. The main picture on that box shows the rescue of Andromeda by Preseus from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is assumed that such mythological or biblical scenes as on the lid of this game box were also the subject of knowledge games, which enjoyed great popularity in the 17th and 18th centuries. The model for the depiction of Abigail with King David goes back to an engraving by Royaumont Sébastien Leclerc (1637 - 1714).
CHF 10 000 / 15 000 | (€ 10 310 / 15 460)
Vendu pour CHF 37 500 (frais inclus)
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