Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side printed on the back surrounded

printed on the back surrounded by two leafy branches

as if the watercolor itself were a document of the actual--messy--affair

"be more fully known to the museum's public

14 pages (folio) filled front and back

and pretty green edge and salmony pink body on this bowl

Gorgeous Antique Folk Art Wooden Dominoes/Matching Game with Best Array of Black Stained Shapes old hand-painted side printed on the back surroundedQuite old, quite unusual, and to my eye just strikingly beautiful. I've seen playing card dominoes, but these are not those; too many different shapes. And too many different shapes to form even a double nines type set of dominoes, too, even if some of the tiles were long since lost. So, maybe made for a game of the makers own invention! The mystery I think makes them even better, as if a sort of dictionary of symbols to be arranged to communicate