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The depth of the turned wood border would protect the gesso portrait within during use. Games of skill such as chess and draughts with their chivalric and military associations had deep roots in patrician leisure, and Luxury boards and games-pieces became common possesions amongst the elite of Renaissance Europe.\r\nThe top face of the games-piece is decorated with a portrait of Margarete von Frundsberg a member of a German noble family.\r\nThis portarit is based on a medal by Friedrich Hagenauer dated 1529; other versions of this subject can be found in the Rijksmuseum. and in the Bayerisches nationalmuseum in Munich. \r\nHagenauer (1490-1500) was a German wood-carver and medallist. In accordance with his training as a wood-carver he prepared his models in boxwood or pearwood and then cast them in silver, bronze or lead. Hagenauer was active throughout the whole South German area and the Lower Rhine (main work output from the cities: Augsburg, Baden, Swabia, Bonn, Cologne, Munich). His models are very accurate and precise, and exact in the smallest detail. His patrons were fascinated by his models and treasured them as works of art, framed them and sometimes even coloured them. This is the reason also why so many have survived.","physicalDescription":"Turned pearwood games-piece, the obverse of which depicts a portrait in coloured gesso of Margarete von Frundsberg. 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Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815; d. 1890) was born in Vienna, and settled in Paris in 1852. He amassed a large collection of works of art, which were housed in l'hotel de la rue Villejust, known as the Musée Spitzer. The collection was auctioned in Paris in 1893.\r\nProvenance: Salting Bequest. George Salting (b. 1836; d. 1909), an Australian who settled in England, bequeathed a large collection of works decorative art to the Museum in 1909.\n\nHistorical significance: This portarit is based on a medal by Friedrich Hagenauer dated 1529; other versions of this subject can be found in the Rijksmuseum. and in the Bayerisches nationalmuseum in Munich.","historicalContext":"This wooden medallion was almost certainly used as a games-piece. The depth of the turned wood border would protect the gesso portrait within during use. Games of skill such as chess and draughts with their chivalric and military associations had deep roots in patrician leisure, and Luxury boards and games-pieces became common possesions amongst the elite of Renaissance Europe. Probably produced in series, sets of such games- pieces comprised of perhaps thirty-two pieces, which have subsequently been split up and in part lost. It is likely that they were made in Augsburg in the mid-sixteenth century, copied from slightly earlier medals by Freidrich Hagenauer and others. Emminent personages such as Charles V or his brother Ferdinand are usually portrayed on this type of games-piece.","briefDescription":"Gamespiece, pearwood and gesso, Margarete von Frundsberg, after Friedrich Hagenauer, Germany ca. 1550","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Trusted, Marjorie. <font -u>German Renaissance Medals</font>. Victoria & Albert Museum, 1990. 128p., ill. ISBN 1851770135."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910) / Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)'. In: <u>List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture)</u>. 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