Box for Board Games

1440-1470 (Renaissance)

15.4 cm 6.3 cm 18.5 cm

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Board games including chess, checkers, and backgammon became increasingly popular in Europe during the later Middle Ages. Chess had been brought back by crusading knights from the Near East. Small boards, such as this on the underside of a box in which the game counters or pie...

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Leon Gruel, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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