Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Gaming Table at Devonshire House’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.77.1, 1791. Image Richard Seymour, The Compleat … paintings from the sixteenth century usually feature players gathered around plain everyday tables in dark taverns, gaming tables evolved into fashionable objects especially designed for domestic spaces at the end of the seventeenth century, testifying to the growing popularity of gaming. This evolution, which was in large part due to the technical progress of marquetry, also turned the gaming table …
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