Games counter
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mother-of-pearl [pinctada maxima]
Measurements
23 mm (Width); 35 mm (Length)
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638002
Summary
One of four similar mother-of-pearl rectangular games counters carved with the heads of monsters issuing from behind a circle inscribed with a pair of doves on one face and a regular design around a six-pointed star on the other.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.