Description
Chess and tric-trac game box in ivory, rosewood, ebony and amaranth veneer including its chess pieces (one knight replaced), its 32 tric-trac pawns (one pawn replaced) and 4 dice. Indo-Portuguese work, late 18th, early 19th century. Height : 25 cm - Width : 52 cm - Depth : 8 cm Open : 50 x 52 cm The game of backgammon already existed in Persia in the second millennium B.C. It became a very popular game in the aristocratic circles of the 18th century and became, with a few nuances, "tric-trac", hence the important production of tables from the reign of Louis XV. It is a game combining chance with two dice and strategy. At the beginning of the 16th century, double-sided game boxes appeared: with a chess game on one side and a tric-trac game on the other side or inside if the box is articulated. These boxes symbolized the opposition between Fortuna (happiness, providence) and Sapientia (strategy, free will in chess).
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Chess and tric-trac game box in ivory, rosewood, ebony and amaranth veneer including its chess pieces (one knight replaced), its 32 tric-trac pawns (one pawn replaced) and 4 dice. Indo-Portuguese work, late 18th, early 19th century. Height : 25 cm - Width : 52 cm - Depth : 8 cm Open : 50 x 52 cm The game of backgammon already existed in Persia in the second millennium B.C. It became a very popular game in the aristocratic circles of the 18th century and became, with a few nuances, "tric-trac", hence the important production of tables from the reign of Louis XV. It is a game combining chance with two dice and strategy. At the beginning of the 16th century, double-sided game boxes appeared: with a chess game on one side and a tric-trac game on the other side or inside if the box is articulated. These boxes symbolized the opposition between Fortuna (happiness, providence) and Sapientia (strategy, free will in chess).
