Lot Essay
See Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, pl. 189, no. 798, for an illustration of an identically modelled chess-set with different painting, attributed to Kändler. See also Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain: A Private Collection, Exhibition catalogue, 1993-1994, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck, 1993, for a full discussion of Meissen chess-sets, and an illustration of a board and similar chess pieces on p. 109, nos. 89-91.