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Original watercolours

[GAMES - PASTIMES].
Jeu du cheval blanc. Explication.

With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone.

With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone.

With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone.

With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone.

With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone.



(Paris, 1836). Large 8vo. Contemp. box, covered with flowered gilt-printed and red and green coloured paper, and with large lithographed plate of a lady with four children playing the present game, richly coloured by hand and glazed with egg-white, on top of the box and put within double borders of decorative gilt strips, printed in relief. With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone. 1 leaf with printed rules of the game.

Very beautiful manuscript children's game, the French variant of the popular German "Glocke und Hammer Spiel" (Bell and Hammer game). In France it was played under the name "Jeu du Cheval Blanc". Here with all the playing cards in beautiful original watercolours, and with the dice and counters contemporarily cut of bone. 

Good copy.- (Box very sl. rubbed, one corner sl. dam.).
Cf. Gumuchian 3217 (with the plates in coloured lithographs); Himmelheber, Spiele, p. 155.

Related Subjects: French  Games & Pastimes  Horses & Horsemanship  Watercolours 

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