NUREMBERG, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A GERMAN POLYCHROME CARVED BONE BUST CHESS SET
NUREMBERG, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
The kings and queens as monarchs, bishops wearing leather bicorn hats, knights as seahorses, rooks as turrets, some replacements and restorations
The king -- 3in. (7.5cm.) high; the pawn -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a comparable Nuremberg bone 18th century example see Bloomsbury, May 2006, lot 110 and The Ernst Boehlen Chess Collection, Phillips, London, November 1998, lot 56. It is noted, that these sets have traditionally been attributed to Dieppe carvers, however, current opinion suggests these are more likely to produced by German carvers. An ivory Geislingen example, dated circa 1760, is illustrated in Hans und Barbara Holländer, Schach Partie Durch Zeiten und Welten, Hamburg, Exhibition Catalogue, 2005, fig.123, page 154.

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