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| Keywords: German - Box for Board Games - Walters 7193 - Back.jpg Board games such as chess checkers and backgammon were increasingly popular in Europe during the later Middle Ages after it had been brought back by crusading knights from the Near East Portable chess boxes with scenes of hunting dancing and courtship were mass-produced in inexpensive materials to contain the game pieces The playing board is set into the box's underside between 1440 1470 Late Medieval paint gilt wood cm 6 3 15 4 18 5 accession number 71 93 9461 Leon Gruel Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Life in the Gothic Age Norfolk Museum of Art Norfolk 1955 Medieval Games of Love and War The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995-1996 place of origin Alsace France Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Empty chessboards | ||||
