Bilboquet
date: label: Date
content: possibly ca. 1780
notes: label: Description
content: Stick and ball toy: ball pierced with hole through center, featuring black engraved images of putti in various stages of play, including several using a Bilboquet; foliage, flowers, pair of doves on plinth in background; continous festoon above play vignettes; top and bottom of ball feature continuous acanthus leaf motifs; ball attached by green silk cord to spirally fluted, baluster-turned stick; stick engraved with additional acanthus leaf motifs near top and bottom; continuous coin pattern carved above and below; stick inscribed near top: "MENUS PLAISIRS DU ROY, VERSAILLES." Narrow post at top of stick inserts into larger hole at the bottom of the ball.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-48-42-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: toys & games
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Bilboquet
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ivory, silk cord (replacement)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 20 x 5.3 cm (7 7/8 x 2 1/16 in.)