AFTER A DESIGN BY FLAXMAN, 20TH CENTURY

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A Wedgewood porcelain chess set
After a design by Flaxman, 20th century
One side with jasper ware reel bases, the pieces modelled on a Shakespearean theme, the kings as Macbeath, the queens as Lady Macbeath, the pawns as tragic muse warriors, stamped WEDGEWOOD, made in ENGLAND to the underside
King -- 4in. (10.2cm.); pawn -- 2¼in. (5.8cm.) high

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Victor Keats, The Illustrated Guide to World Chess Sets, Batsford Ltd 1985, page 141, ill. 167.
J McNab Dennis and C Wilkinson, Chess: East and West, Past and Present, A selection from the Gustavus A.Pfeiffer Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1968. No 78. reference is made to John Flaxman's original design for Josiah Wedgewood.

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