SET OF FOUR XVIIth CENTURY GAMES Provenance Private collection, Paris, 2010-2011 PIERRE LEBRUN (received master cartier in 1749) COMPLETE SET OF 52 PLAYING CARDS with the "portrait of Paris", presented in a Louis XVI period pearl sandblasted box Paris, 1766 or 1771 Hand-painted printed cards, polychrome glass pearl sandblasted box Signed on all the portrait cards: P. Lebrun with his bluteau, a bird and the mention G.D.Paris for Généralité de Paris The Parisian cartiers were forced to have their sheets printed in the offices held by the farmers in order to pay their tax, re-established in 1745. A new type of portrait was regularly produced. Ours, which does not correspond to any of those recorded, would be from 1766 or 1771, years for which the moulding sheets have disappeared. This set, complete, is presented in a late 18th century pearl sandblasted box. The polychrome glass pearls, threaded on silk thread, are glued on a green lacquered wooden core on which they draw a flowery pattern with a bird in the centre. This weaving technique imitates that of embroidery. MARIAVAL LE JEUNE (active in Paris and Rouen) QUADRILLE GAME in its box with embossed decoration Paris, 18th century Painted and embossed wood, trimmed with fabric, natural ivory and stained red, green, yellow Missing some cards and tokens 193 x 150 mm (box) 32 x 22 mm (each of the four cassetins) Signed "Mariaval le Jeune a Paris fecit" The quadrille game is contained in four boxes arranged in the four cassetins (or compartments) of this box painted in red, decorated on the top with a cartouche where a young woman, with a flower in her hand, is standing in a landscape The portrait of the royal couple appears in relief in each spandrel, amidst plant motifs also in relief, embossed with metallic leaf. The four engraved ivory cases, natural or stained, are decorated with characters from the Commedia dell'Arte. Each one originally contained 20 cards, 10 tokens and 5 contracts. The tokens all have an engraved motto, a drawing is accompanied by a humorous or even naughty word. Place your bets: good to all winds, one is enough for me... QUADRILLE GAME decorated with characters and landscapes XVIIIth century Natural ivory and stained red, green, yellow Incomplete game This second quadrille game has lost its case. The four ivory cases are decorated in the same way as the first. They are enriched with a picturesque decoration inside the lids, four genre scenes in a landscape. DAUPHINS TRESSETTE GAME in its red morocco case German or Austrian work, last quarter of the 18th century Engraved mother-of-pearl game elements, engraved brass markers, gilt and silvered; red morocco and gilt case, paper core covered with chamois goat or sheepskin H. 4 cm, W. 15.7 cm, D. 12.5 cm one missing token Provenance Galerie Pascal IZARN Private collection, Paris, since 2011 This red morocco case gilded with small irons opens on a set of braids carefully arranged in nine compartments covered with chamois leather and underlined with a silver braid. Two mother-of-pearl fish-shaped cards are isolated in the central compartment, between those for the two gilt and silver-plated brass markers, decorated with a dolphin and foliage. Each of the markers has two times six mother-of-pearl dolphin tabs. Twenty-three mother-of-pearl tokens, engraved with geometrical patterns, are distributed in the six side squares, three on each side. The tressette is a game of tricks. It is played by four players with 40 cards (a deck of 52 cards from which 8s, 9s and 10s have been removed). Each of the four players has 10 cards. Further information from the collector can be found in the PDF by QR code.