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Backgammon Board and Gaming Pieces

dated 1537, Artist: Hans Kels d. Ä. , Schnitzerei

 

 

Backgammon Board and Gaming Pieces

The elaborate and complex pictorial program of this game board propagates the dynastic and territorial claims of the House of Habsburg. The mounted brothers, Charles V and Ferdinand I, at the centre of the composition are framed by portraits of ancestors and relatives, Roman emperors and ancient rulers, and the arms of their realms. The gaming pieces depict literary scenes.

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer Wien Raum XXXI

Object data

Object Name

Game; Game board

Culture

Kaufbeuren

Dated

dated 1537

Artist

Hans Kels d. Ä. , Schnitzerei (um 1480 Kaufbeuren - 1559/60 Kaufbeuren) - GND

Workshop

Jörg Breu d. Ä. , Entwurf (um 1475 - 1537 Augsburg) - GND

Attributed to

Georg Hörmann , Konzept (1491 - 1552) - GND

Material

Oak, nut wood, rosewood, palisander, mahogany, bronze

Dimensions

H. 56 cm, B. 56 cm

Signed

HANS KELS ZV KAVFBEIREN

Inscribed

Inschriften um die Medaillons; AF

Image rights

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer

Inv. No.

Kunstkammer, 3419

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