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ANTIQUE #SA1112730

Lacca Povera Games Counters Box

£1,500    $1,837    €1,778
Eighteenth century Lacca Povera counter box together with its contents of four individual boxes made to contain gaming counters, most likely for the playing of reversis, an old Italian card game. Reversis was the game on which two further very popular card games was based; hombre and quadrille. The playing of card games was important to anyone intending to join polite society in the eighteenth century and boxes such as this would have been seen as luxurious and fashionable.
 
Italian, perhaps Venice, circa 1740. The four internal boxes would originally have been hinged.
 
7 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in
 
Lacca Povera, which translates from the Italian as ‘poor man’s lacquer’ dates from the eighteenth century and is thought to have originated in Venice. Developed to satisfy the demand for a less expensive version of true lacquer, printers of the day produced sheets of engravings specifically for use in producing Lacca Povera.
 
 
Internal Reference: 5510
Antique Number: SA1112730
Dateline of this antique is 18th Century
Antique #SA1112730, shown on this page, originates from the 18th century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
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