Hand-colored lithograph.

Lottery game with 2 game boards, wooden lottery pieces and further, beautifully colored pieces made of bone. Comes with the original lid of the original box and a copy of the original game instructions. 2 of 4 boards present, completeness of the other parts not checked.

"The Lotto de Dauphin was invented in 1775 by the game maker Vaugeois as a more complicated variation of the existing Lotto. In Versailles in particular, the prince (Dauphin) was fond of playing it. It is said that Louis XVI himself suggested the game to entertain his son and that a game of Loto de Dauphin was played every evening in a different room of the palace. A game even accompanied the royal family when they were imprisoned in the Temple. It remained a popular game in French upper-class families until the 19th century". (quoted from: Antiquariat T. Mertens, Berlin, in ZVAB).