LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A German softwood chess set
Late 19th century
Of bust type, the opposing sides natural and ebonised, the royal pieces crowned, the pawns wearing helmets, on tapering square integral plinths
King -- 3½in. (9cm); pawn -- 17/8in. (4.8cm.) high

注意事項

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J McNab Dennis and Charles Wilkinson, Chess; East and West, Past and Present, A selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1968. A similar set is illustrated in plate 53, described as a portrait bust set depicting military leaders from World War One. The set carved by Max Nicolaus Niemeierm (born 1876), with the pearwood side illustrating the Germans versus the opposing Allied side.