Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… ‘A Gaming Table at Devonshire House’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.77.1, 1791. Image Richard Seymour, The Compleat Gamester (London: E. Curll, 1734) (frontispiece). Abstract Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth century … of them, the very image of a corrupted sociability in which each participant is a prey in the eye of the rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Keywords Aristocracy Domesticity Furniture Gambling Gaming Playing Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long …
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