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Jeu Royal or couvert ne se paye pas - Royal Game "If You're Covered You Don't Pay" 
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disegnatore: Anonimo 
autore: Anonimo 
anno: 1710 
luogo: Francia-Parigi(?) 
periodo: XVIII secolo (1°/4) 
percorso: Percorso di 66 caselle numerate 
materiale: carta (paper) (papier) 
dimensioni: 685X1040 (642X935) 
stampa: Acquaforte (taille-douce) (engraving) 
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data acquisto:  
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numero caselle: 66 
categoria: Lotterie, fortuna, gioco d'azzardo 
tipo di gioco: Gioco con i dadi  
editore: Non indicato 
stampatore: Non indicato 
proprietario: Collezione Rothschild 
autore delle foto: Waddesdon The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust) 
numero di catalogo: 1174 
descrizione: Gioco di 66 caselle numerate.

REFERENZA 1
The sheet for this game, in which the players are opposed to a banker as in Roulette, consists of 66 numbered spaces in rows and columns, and is a staking layout based on the Italian Gioco Reale (Royal Game). Thierry Depaulis (1987) illustrates a version with slightly but significantly different iconography in the collection of Jean Verame and puts the game in the context of similar games of the Biribi type. He also notes (private communication) a third slightly-variant version in a Brussels collection. The game is played with accompanying numbered balls or pieces of paper which are drawn at random from a bag, or possibly with a set of cards. In the game, stakes can be placed on any of the numbered spaces and will win if the number drawn corresponds. They can also be placed, at correspondingly reduced odds, on the spaces above or below the columns, when they will win if the number drawn is contained in that column. The 11 columns are headed: Les Femmes, Les Armes, Les Hommes, Les Fruits, Les Bêtes a Quatre Pieds, Les Oyseaux, Les Fruits, Les Armes, Les Femmes, Les Ports et Bâtiments. [The coats of arms include that of Pope Clement XI: His period of office 1700-1721 therefore provides an indication of the game’s date.] Stakes can also be placed on the spaces at the ends of the rows: these spaces each contain a specified group of 6 numbers. The phrase in the title panel “Or couvert ne se paye pas” is obscure but comparison with similar Italian games, in which the title panel reads “Giuoco Reale – denari in tavola, oro coperto non si paga” (see for example the panel by Paolo Scorzia in the Collezione Mestrovich, Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice) suggests that the meaning is “table stakes only – covered gold will not be paid”. This interpretation is confirmed by the recent discovery by Manfred Zollinger (2010) of a document printed in Amsterdam between 1689 and 1695 that shows a “Royal Oak Lottery” game in progress, this being a gambling game (a variant of Hoca) similar to the Jeu Royal. The print gives the rules of the game in three languages: Dutch, French and English. These rules clearly state that, when a punter stakes a gold coin, he must show it to the banker and say out loud what he is staking, and also that the gold must not be concealed beneath another coin: “Si quelqu’un met de l’or sur le jeu, il doit dire tout haut (...), autrement le Banquier n’est pas tenu de le payer, non plus que quand on cache quelque piece d’or sous de l’argent ou autre monnoye.” Cheating by concealing a gold coin underneath a larger, silver one was evidently a common practice in France as late as the 19th century, as Zola recounts in his novel, first published serially in 1867, Les Mystères de Marseille, at Chapter XV: "Le maître portefaix regardait ce garçon avec méfiance. Il suivit ses gestes, et il s’aperçut qu’il cachait une pièce de vingt francs sous sa pièce de cinq francs en argent; lorsqu’il gagnait, il étalait le tout, il empochait vingt-cinq francs; lorsqu’il perdait, il laissait la pièce d’or cachée sous la grosse pièce d’argent et il ne donnait à Marius que cinq francs. Il paraît qu’il ne se passe pas de nuit sans que cette filouterie adroite ait lieu dans un tripot de Marseille".
(Plock, Phillippa - Seville Adrian)

Exhibitions
- "Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from 18th-Century France". Catalogue exhibition of French eighteenth-century Board Games, 28 March – 28 October 2012, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust). Rachel Jacobs, Curator.
bibliografia: 1) CREPY, Jean Baptiste: “Estampes pour servir à la Récréation de l'Esprit sous la forme du Jeu Royal de l'Oye Renouvelé des Grecs. Pour l'Education des Jeunes Gens de l'un & de l'autre Sexe”. Lesquelles se trouvent à Paris chez Crepy, Rue S.t Jacques à S.t Pierre près la Rue de de la Parcheminerie. A. P. D. R. Paris, 1780ca (contiene 26 giochi rilegati).
2) VINCK, Eugène, Baron de: "Iconographie du Noble Jeu de l’Oye". Catalogue descriptif et raisonné de la Collection de Jeux formé par le Baron de Vinck". 126 Jeux du XVIIIe au débùt du XIXe siècle. FR. J. Olivier Libraire, 11 Rue des Paroissiens, Bruxelles, pag. 20-21, 1886.
3) ALLEMAGNE, Henry-René D’: "Le noble jeu de l’oie en France, de 1640 à 1950", Ed. Grund, Parigi 1950.
4) NEGRI, Ilio - VERCELLONI, Virgilio: "I giochi di dadi d'azzardo e di passatempo dei gentiluomini e dei pirati". Introduzione di Caterina Santoro, Lerici Milano 1958.
5) MASCHERONI, Silvia - TINTI, Bianca: “Il gioco dell’oca: un libro da leggere, da guardare, da giocare”. Ed. Bompiani, Milano 1981.
6) GIRARD, Alain R.-QUETEL, Claude: "L’histoire de France racontée par le jeu de l’oie", Ed. Balland-Massin Parigi 1982.
7) MILANESI, Franco - LANARI David: in "Il Gioco dell’oca nei tempi", Catalogo Mostra. Pro Loco Mirano, Ed. CentroOffset srl - Mestrino, Padova (pag. 111), 2001.
8) BUIJNSTERS, P.J. - BUIJNSTERS-SMETS, Leontine: "PAPERTOYS. Speelprenten en papieren speelgoed in Nederland (1640-1920)". Waanders Uitgevers-Zwolle, 2005.
9) PLOCK, Phillippa: "Waddesdon The Rothschild Collection", Catalogo (modified), 2009.
10) PLOCK, Phillippa - SEVILLE, Adrian:, "The Rothschild Collection of printed board games at Waddesdon Manor" in XIIIth Board Game Studies Colloquium, Paris, 14-17 April 2010.
11) JACOBS, Rachel: "Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from 18th-Century France". Catalogue exhibition of French eighteenth-century Board Games, 28 March – 28 October 2012, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust). Rachel Jacobs, Curator.
12) PLOCK, Phillippa - SEVILLE, Adrian: "La Collection Rothschild de Jeux de l’Oie et de parcours à Waddesdon Manor". In "Le Vieux Papier", Fascicolo 404, Aprile 2012, pag. 433- 444.
13) SEVILLE, Adrian: "The Royal Game of the Goose four hundred years of printed Board Games". Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, February 23 - May 14, 2016.
14) SEVILLE, Adrian: "The Cultural Legacy of the Royal Game of the Goose: 400 years of Printed Board Games", Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
15) POGGIALI, Daniela: "Oche, civette e dadi". La Collezione dei Giochi della Biblioteca Classense. Catalogo Mostra 20/12/2019 -02/02/2020. Istituzione Biblioteca Classense RAVENNA - Comune di Ravenna. 2019.
16) SEVILLE, Adrian: "L'arte dei giochi da tavolo. Oltre un secolo di storia e divertimento dalla fine del Settecento all'inizio del Novecento." Edizioni White Star, 2019.
17) PARLAK, Ömer Fatih: "The Image of the Turk in Early Modern Board Games and Playing Cards". PHD THESIS. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2019.
18) GIANNUZZI, Cosimo - NEGRO, Antonio - D'AURELIO, Vincenzo: "Viaggio nei Giochi dell'Oca e di Percorso. Geografia, Storia, Araldica." Edizioni Grifo 4; Lecce 2022.






 
 
   
 
   
  Accession N°2669.1.19 Waddesdon-The Rothschild Collection
 

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