LATE 19TH CENTURY

细节

A Meissen porcelain figural chess set
Late 19th century
The theme based on the Moors versus the Turks, the Turks in yellow and the Moors in brick red, heightened in gilt, each piece numbered and with the crossed sword Meissen mark in underglaze blue
King -- 31/8in. (8cm.); pawn -- 23/8in. (6cm.) high

注意事项

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拍品专文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A later manufactured Meissen set was sold in these Rooms, 27 September 1995, lot 184.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A E J Mackett-Beeson, CHESSMEN, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1968. Illustrates a 18th century set of a similar design, plate 93.