DUTCH, MID-19TH CENTURY

Details

A NORTH EUROPEAN TURNED BONE 'SELENUS' CHESS SET
DUTCH, MID-19TH CENTURY
One side stained black, the knights as a horse's head and rooks as castle turrets
The king -- 3½ in. (9 cm.); the pawn -- 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar bone chess set see Phillips, London, The Ernst Boehlen Collection, 9 November 1998, lot 74.

Gareth Williams, Master Pieces, Quniet, 2000, pp74-75 illustrates a very similar chess set in turned fruitwood.

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