Set of game pieces, including four chequers (one white [.1], one blue [.2], one brown [.3] and one green [.4]) and a marble decorated with orange lines [.5] [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Set of game pieces, including four chequers (one white [.1], one blue [.2], one brown [.3] and one green [.4]) and a marble decorated with orange lines [.5] [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/3/2005]
Long description: Description taken from Conservation Card - Set of game pieces, including four chequers. 4 chequers pieces of china (1-4). all glazed, 1 blue, 1 white, 1 green and 1 brown. All roughly cubic with curvy sides. 1 stone marble decorated with bands of parallel lines. DMS: Pieces H = 20mm D = 15mm W = 17mm Marble: Diam =27mm (Katerina Kakouli 26/06/02 ) [LKG 19/02/2009]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North Yorkshire Whitby
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Harold T. Adams; PRM source Harold T. Adams
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1895
Date collected: By 1895
Acquisition information: Donated: 08/1895, uncertain Donated: 09/1895, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Porcelain Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Glazed, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width 17 mm, Height 15 mm, Diameter 27 mm marble, Height 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1895.20.2.1 Accession number: 1895.20.2.2 Accession number: 1895.20.2.3 Accession number: 1895.20.2.4 Accession number: 1895.20.2.5
Research and responses: Possibly Harold Thomas Adams [AP 21/11/2006]

Search terms: Toy and Game, Pottery, Game

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