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Counting box (boîte de jetons) with counters
Counting box (boîte de jetons) with counters

Counting box (boîte de jetons) with counters

Mariaval, le jeune (French, active by 1746)
about 1750–70
Medium/TechniquePainted ivory, gilt-metal, later leather case
DimensionsOverall: 1.9 x 8.3 x 5.7cm (3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/4in.)
Credit LineGift of Stella Champollion Trafford
Accession number2001.238.1-4
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InscriptionsInscribed on the interior: "Mariaual le Jeune a Paris fecit"ProvenanceAndré Chéronnet-Champollion (b. 1880 - d. 1915), Paris, New York, and Newport, NH [see note]; by inheritance to his son, René Chéronnet-Champollion (b. 1909 - d. 1959), New York and Newport, NH; by inheritance to his widow, Stella Champollion Trafford (b. 1912 - d. 2009), Boston; 2001, gift of Stella Champollion Trafford to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2001)

NOTE: He may have inherited this set of counting boxes (MFA accession nos. 2001.238.1-4) from his great-grandfather, Jean-François Champollion (b. 1790 - d. 1832).