Lot n° 199
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 2 576EUR
LOTO du Dauphin.
Box in red cardboard gilded... - Lot 199 - Coutau-Bégarie
LOTO du Dauphin.
Box in red cardboard gilded with small irons opening on the front.
Inside 12 trays, with counters and sticks balloon.
H. : 43 cm, W. : 32 cm, D. 28 cm
End of the 18th century (accident to a tray, missing the purse and the tray for the presentation of the counters)
The Loto Dauphin was created at the end of the 18th century by the table maker Vaugeois in 1775, to make up for the monotony of the classic lotos.
The story goes that it was Louis XVI himself who invented these complications to amuse his son, the Dauphin.
Each player takes a numbered and perforated tray from 1 to 90. He places his sticks and figures, including the dolphin on the board, in the places of his choice.
At the end of the drawing of the fifteen numbers, the cones are placed on the cup.
The winnings vary according to the nature of the sticks and figures placed on his grid, the number marked by the dolphin being the most interesting.
The winner is the one who finishes his board first.
This game made the beautiful evenings of Versailles and Trianon in the circle of Marie-Antoinette.
After a period of oblivion, it became very fashionable again under the Restoration.
Among the models present in the French museums we can quote:
- A model similar to ours in the museum of the decorative arts of Paris inv. 54264
- The specimen which had the small Dauphin Louis XVII in the prison of the temple which is preserved in the Carnavalet museum
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