Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… into the symbol of the dissolute life of players whose addiction got the better 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 … 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 eighteenth century as we can see from the … interactions among the middle classes see Janet E. Mullin, ‘“We Had Carding”: Hospitable Card Play and Polite Domestic Sociability among the Middling Sort in Eighteenth-Century England’, Journal of Social History (vol. 43, n° 4, Summer …
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