Exceptional 8

French ‘Art Deco’5 drawer box..

Box (223x166x177mm) is Western. Made of beautiful root wood. The styling is stern. On the top bone Babcock characters are inlaid. Piano-hinges are used for the lid and flapfront (with lock and quasi guilded key).

Tiles (21x31x14mm) are Chinese. Made of top quality, thick bone and rather thin bamboo. The engraving is very good. The seasons show people instead of flowers. There are 4 spare tiles.

Counters are flat strips of ivory with rather careless applied, Western denomination.

Dice (4x) are made of bone with Chinese points. Their holder is a Cricket box made of ivory or ‘French Ivory’.

Wind discs are made of ivory. Their Ming-cylinder has got lost.

Instruction manual is a French version of the ‘Lung Chan’ booklet (with a red cover) dated 1924.