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| - A rectangular wooden box, with hinged lid of curved section, painted in red and decorated on lid with gilded scrolls and fleur-de-lys, acanthus leaves and Commedia dell'Arte figures, with Harlequin, Columbine and Pierrot depicted, and two central busts which may represent the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand and his second Dauphine Marie Josephe de Saxe.
The box is lined with blue silk and contains four smaller boxes with hinged lids, of wood, each painted a different colour (red, green, yellow and white), for gaming counters, each set in the centre of the lid with an ivory dial (for counting scores), decorated with penwork and resist-colouring in red and green. The lids of the boxes are decorated with heavy gilded scrolls, raised in relief, the corners set with fleur-de-lys, the areas to each side of the dials set with the same bust of a man and a woman in profile as on the large box lid, above pairs of dolphins (a single dolphin also shown on the dial). The boxes each contain several engraved mother of pearl playing pieces. (en)
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