Use for life-size paintings of figures, usually people, occasionally animals, on thin panel cut out to give a lifelike effect; popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
AAT
3000194372
board figures, dummy
boards, dummy
companions, silent
dummy boards
dummy-board figures
figures, dummy board
silent companions
13yrs ago
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