A set of 44 rectangular mother-of-pearl gaming counters, engraved with the cipher ‘CR’ under a crown in the centre on a hatched ground.

Perhaps identifiable as the contents of the ‘card box in Japanese lacquer, containing seven smaller boxes, with thirty-six dozen and three mother-of-pearl counters’, included in the Queen Charlotte sale (Christie’s 1819A, 7 May, lot 117), or the box containing 124 mother-of-pearl counters bearing the Queen’s cipher sold in the Duke of Sussex’s sale, Christie’s 1845 (24 July, lot 177).

Text from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.