Estimate € 650 - 700
Sold € 1,900
Auction: 28 March 2024 at 15:00
Art of the 19th century. Lot composed of three wooden matrices for woodcut playing cards. Milan, workshop of Edoardo Dotti (max 30x41 cm) (defects) Edoardo Dotti was a Milanese tarot and card maker active from 1860 to 1882, son of Teodoro Dotti, who had been a partner of Ferdinando Gumppenberg (a Bavarian manufacturer) from 1838 to 1842, who continued on the path taken by the German Master and, Not having copper plates at his disposal, he commissioned an engraver to prepare new wooden plates, a specific feature of Dotti’s workshop.
Estimate € 650 - 700