Live auction - Lot 18
Hand-painted game about "le passé, le présent et le futur"
[Enseignes françaises]
Hand-painted French Tarot.
Hammer price: €
1.000
€ 450 / 600
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Lot description
[Ca. 1790]
2-headed, woodcut and hand-painted on blue-tinted laid paper, 8,6 x 5,3 cm, square corners, 40 cards. Back: blue stars and dots on a white background.
In contemporary cardboard case (very light traces of use).
Game to predict "the Past, the Present and the Future" where each card presents 2 ill. The set represents the number of cards expected from a normal tarot deck. The Pope and the High Priestess are replaced here by Jupiter and Juno. The non-mythological or allegorical characters wear clothes as the French people after their Revolution.