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Gaming Set

Gilded porcelain box of betting chips for card game.
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  • Gilded porcelain box of betting chips for card game.

Date:

c. 1735

Artist:

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory
Austria, 1718-1744

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, tightly organized decorative scheme. The lid of the large box depicts three trompe l’oeil playing cards that appear to have been carelessly thrown down. Each of the corners of the box and lid is painted with a network of violet and gold ornaments characteristic of the factory’s mature, late-Baroque style. With its liberal use of gold and diamonds, this work was certainly among the most extravagant objects crafted at the Du Paquier manufactory. The box may have been presented as a diplomatic gift, perhaps from the Austrian Habsburgs to their Russian Romanov counterparts.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer)

Title

Gaming Set

Place

Vienna (Object made in)

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1730–1740

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilt mounts, and diamonds

Dimensions

16.8 × 14.8 cm (6 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Eloise W. Martin fund; Richard T. Crane and Mrs. J. Ward Thorne endowments; through prior gift of The Antiquarian Society

Reference Number

1993.349

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