Box for playing card counters, ca. 1760, German, Meissen, Hard-paste porcelain, Overall: 2 3/4 × 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (7 × 12.4 × 17.1 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, The card game l’Hombre was a fashionable pastime in the eighteenth century, and special boxes were created at the Meissen porcelain manufacture to hold the necessary counters. Five playing cards decorate the lid; the one on top, which represents the King of Hearts, is based on a French deck of cards made for the German market by Claude Valentin of Lyon about 1650
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Box, playing card counters, ca, 1760, German, Meissen, Hard-paste porcelain, Overall, 2 3/4, 4 7/8, 6, 7, 12.4, 17.1 cm, Ceramics-Porcelain, card, game, l’Hombre, fashionable pastime, eighteenth century, special boxes, created, Meissen, manufacture, hold, necessary, Five playing, cards, decorate, lid, top, represents, King, Hearts, based, French deck, German market, Claude Valentin, Lyon, 1650
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