F134: Charming Vaugeois Polychromed carved bone Geislingen Chess Set in original Paris retailers box.
Circa 1800. Kings 7.5cms. This is one of the most original sets we have had from this period.
The commercial activity of Vaugeois is not known in detail, but we know that he appears in the accounts of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, for having supplied in 1771 a set of hombre with six ivory boxes worth 72 livres, a set of quadrille made of ivory worth 48 livres, and a set of hombre worth 30 livres for the Count of Provence and the Count of Artois, brothers of the future Louis XVI. These are tokens in their boxes. In 1775, Vaugeois produced a lotto, a game that was quite new at the time, accompanied by a printed booklet of two pages: Rules of the Loto game, sold at Vaugeois, Merchant, at the Green Monkey, rue des Arcis. The rule of the game ends with the mention 'Read and approved, this 12th of September 1775. Crébillon.' On the lid's label, it is written the list of all the items that the shop offered: gold snuffboxes, quartz crystal boxes, flasks, gold and silver cases, sets of dominoes, quadrille games, chess games, solitaire games, billiard games, etc...
Note the silk bows on the queens. Here is link to more information on Vaugeois
