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Works of Art (18)
Bishop Chess Piece, 12th century, English, Walrus ivory (17.190.229)  
 
Blindman's Buff, 1982–83, Komar and Melamid (Vitaly Komar, Russian; Aleksandr Melamid, Russian), Oil on canvas (1991.466) 
 
Chess set, late 18th century, Russian (Kholmogory), Walrus ivory (60.146a-pp) 
 
Facsimile of Queen Nefertari, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C., Egyptian, Color facsimile by Nina deGaris Davies (30.4.145) 
 
Game Piece, 12th century, German (Probably made in Cologne), Walrus ivory (16.106)  
 
Intaglio of a venator fighting a lion, 1st century A.D.; Late Augustan to Flavian, Roman, Carnelian (41.160.710)  
 
Mechanical game table, ca. 1780–83, David Roentgen (German), Germany; Neuwied, Partially stained oak, mahogany, maple, and fruitwood, felt, partially tooled and gilded leather, iron and steel fittings, brass (2007.42.1,2)  
 
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (07.286.79) 
 
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (16.71) 
 
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 530–520 B.C.; Black-figure, Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (14.130.12)  
 
Playing at Quintain, ca. 1500, French (Paris?), Colorless glass, silver stain, and vitreous paint (1980.223.6)  
 
Psykter, ca. 520–510 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to Oltos, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (10.210.18)  
 
Set of Fifty-Two Playing Cards, ca. 1470–1480, South Netherlandish; Made in Burgundian Territories, Pasteboard with pen and ink, tempera, applied gold and silver (1983.515.1-52)  
 
Snap the Whip, 1872, Winslow Homer (American), Oil on canvas (50.41) 
 
The Card Players, early 1890s, Paul Cézanne (French), Oil on canvas (61.101.1) 
 
The Chess Players, 1876, Thomas Eakins (American), Oil on wood (81.14) 
 
The Ring Toss, 1899, Clarence H. White (American), Gum bichromate print (33.43.303) 
 
Two girls playing a game known as ephedrismos, late 4th–3rd century B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta (07.286.4) 
 
Thematic Essays (4)