拍品 106
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A German ivory figural chess set
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A German ivory figural chess set

ERBACH, CIRCA 1900

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A German ivory figural chess set
Erbach, circa 1900
One side stained light brown, the opposing natural, modelled as mythological figures
The king -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) high; the pawn -- 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Victor Keats, Illustrated Guide to World Chess Sets, Batsford Ltd, 1985, page 63, pl.70.
Christie's South Kensington, The Allen Hofrichter Collection of Chess Sets, 20 September 2000, lot 99.
Keats has illustrated a similar late 19th century set by Gottfried Runderspacher, Hamburg. The kings also modelled after the Apollo Belvedere, each queen as a Venus, the bishops as winged Mercury's, the knights as centaurs, each rook as a classical column and the pawns as cherubs.