A hinged chess and backgammon board closing in the shape of a box "Eger" Baroque wood with grooved and ebonised decoration "Military Trophies" and "Flowers" cover with panel of various carved, grooved and dyed woods "Battle of Vienna - 1683" back and interior with board markings in various woods with grooved decoration "Flowers" and "Obelisks and dolphins", iron mounts Bohemia C. 1700 wear on the ebonised, minor faults and defects Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (fechado) 10 x 54 x 54 cm; (aberto) 5 x 108 x 54 cm Notes: belonged to the Ernst Boehlen collection.
This piece was part of the exhibition "Schach - Figuren und Spiele vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart" in the Bellerive Museum, Zurich, from the 15th of September to the 14th of November 1982, and is reproduced as number 17 in its catalogue. Lot accompanied by an inventory sheet with the information that it was part of another exhibition in Dresden Bank, Frankfurt, in 1988, and is reproduced as number 9 in page 25 of the catalogue.
Vd. similar board in "O Xadrez e o Cérebro - Arte e Ciência". Lisbon: Franco Maria Ricci - Champalimaud Foundation, 2021, pp. 67-70.
A similar piece belongs to the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art vd. - https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/60284 - visited on 14.11.2023 at 10:05.