Box for Board Games
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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Artifact
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9461
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object
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stage
normalized
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provenance
Leon Gruel, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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CC0
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language
en
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7
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import
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Terms
Culture
Medieval European