Playing Dice

ca. 1524 (Renaissance)

10 cm 17 cm

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Dice players make an unexpected appearance in this calendar, for gambling is a rare theme for January. They are playing "raffle," a game won by rolling three matching numbers at once, similar to modern slot machines. There seems to be some debate over the winning throw of thre...

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Bishop Jean II de Mauléon, ca. 1523, by commission; Gruel and Engelmann [no. 140] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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