Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… (London: E. Curll, 1734) (frontispiece). Résumé Although game scene paintings from the sixteenth century usually feature players gathered around plain everyday tables in dark taverns, gaming tables evolved into fashionable objects especially … part due to the technical progress of marquetry, also turned the gaming table 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 … rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Mots-clés Aristocracy Domesticity Furniture Gambling Gaming Playing Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle classes …
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