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Selected Works Game’s On!

Embark on a discovery of the games, toys and ludi that entertained our ancestors! Games are not merely everyday objects. The most talented artists could embellish and transform them into true works of art.

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Egyptian Antiquities

Game board in the form of a...

Late Dynastic Period, 27th-30th Dynasty, 525-332 BC
Egyptian Antiquities

Three throwsticks

New Kingdom, circa 1500-1069 BC
Egyptian Antiquities

Knucklebones
Egyptian Antiquities

Game box in the name of Imenmes

Circa 1300 BC
Near Eastern Antiquities

Board game, the so-called...

Iron Age, c. 11th-9th centuries BC

Necropolis B, Tomb 217, Tepe Sialk, Iran
Paintings

Pieter de HOOCH (Rotterdam, 1629-Amsterdam, 1684)

Card Players in an Opulent Interior

Circa 1663-65
Paintings

Karel DUJARDIN ...

The Morra Players

Circa 1660/70
Paintings

Georges de LA TOUR

The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds