Lot Essay
Comparative lot sold in Christie's Great Rooms, London 18 June 1979, lot 30, and 3 April 1980, lot 29.
Details
A French ebony and ivory chess set, 19th century
all pieces apart from the rooks with urn-shaped stems, kings with lobed crowns, queens with ball knop finials, bishops with stylised cleft mitres, knights with horses heads, rooks as turrets, pawns with knop finials, king -- 3 1/8in. (8cm) high, pawn -- 1 3/8in. (3.5cm) high
See Illustration.
all pieces apart from the rooks with urn-shaped stems, kings with lobed crowns, queens with ball knop finials, bishops with stylised cleft mitres, knights with horses heads, rooks as turrets, pawns with knop finials, king -- 3 1/8in. (8cm) high, pawn -- 1 3/8in. (3.5cm) high
See Illustration.