A MEISSEN CHESS-SET
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A MEISSEN CHESS-SET

MID-18TH CENTURY, A FEW PIECES PERHAPS LATER, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SOME PIECES

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A MEISSEN CHESS-SET
MID-18TH CENTURY, A FEW PIECES PERHAPS LATER, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO SOME PIECES
Probably modelled by J.J. Kändler, one side decorated in puce, the other in blue with flower-sprays, the kings and queens with pierced crowns, the knights as horse's heads and the rooks as turrets, brown-edged rims, comprising: thirty-six pieces
The king 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high; the pawns 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high

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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.
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