Sold for:
$540
$540
Carved Bone Slide-lid Game Box with Painted Figures, possibly Napoleonic prisoner-of-war-made, early 19th century, the slide-lid top inset with two watercolor on paper depictions of a fashionably dressed young man and woman under glass, the top and sides ornamented with pierced and carved designs, some heightened with red and blue pigment, the interior containing twenty-four bone dominoes, (losses on corner posts of box), ht. 1 7/8, wd. 2, lg. 5 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
