Box for playing card counters, ca. 1760, German, Meissen, Hard-paste porcelain, Overall: 2 3/4 × 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (7 × × 1

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Box for playing card counters, ca. 1760, German, Meissen, Hard-paste porcelain, Overall: 2 3/4 × 4 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (7 × × 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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