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Game Board
between 1440 and 1470
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German
Unknown
Bone and walnut on wood core with metal hinges and traces of polychromy
Overall: 9 3/4 × 10 7/8 × 1/2 inches (24.8 × 27.6 × 1.3 cm)
Toys and Games
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. William Clay
41.2
Public Domain
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Provenance
by 1922 Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek [1837–1922], Castle Kreuzenstein (Leobendorf, Austria)
by 1940, (Silberman Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1941–Present, museum purchase, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 24, no. 2 (1944): p. 24 (ill.).
Bassani, E. and W.B. Fagg. Africa and the Renaissance. Exh. cat., The Center for African Art, et al. New York, 1988, p. 104 (ill.).
Randall, R.H., Jr. The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections. New York, 1993, p. 130.
Barnet, P., ed. Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age. Exh. cat. Detroit, 1997, cat. no. 75, pp. 270-272.
Nuttall, P. "Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes." Renaissance Studies 24, no. 1 (2010): pp. 131-133.
Nuttall, P. "The Bargello gamesboard: a north-south hybrid." The Burlington Magazine 152, no. 1292 (November 2010): p. 722, fig. 18 (ill.).
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German, Game Board, between 1440 and 1470, bone and walnut on wood core with metal hinges and traces of polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William Clay, 41.2.
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