Pub games an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. The object was for players to throw sticks at the head in order to break the pipe. The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. The ball is on a short plinth about 4 inches (10 cm) high, and is known as a 'dolly'. The dolly is placed on a dog-legged metal spike and players throw sticks or short battens at the dolly, trying to
Interior with an Old Woman and a Young Boy Interior with an Old Woman and a Young Boy Interior with an Old Woman and a Young Boy is a c.1656-1660 oil on panel painting by Jan Steen. Initially identified in the Hague as an anonymous copy by Macalester Loup. It was probably bought in the Hague by Johan Gabriel Schwarzmann (1739-1812). After his death he left it to Maria Anna Schwarzmann (1778-1847), wife of Pierre Bartholomeus van den Hove (1763-1839). They left it to their daughter Anna Maria Ludicova van den Hove (1822-1855), wife of Eduard Theodor Leon Speyart van Woerden (1813-1881). It was then inherited by Cornelius Ludovicus