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Lot Essay
This Danish spiral openwork set is based on earlier 19th Century examples. See Schach Partie Durch Zeiten Und Welten, im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, published 2005, fig. 198.
Details
A TURNED IVORY CHESS SET
CIRCA 1950
In the Danish style, the king with pierced two-tier gallery and the queen with a singled tiered gallery, supported on open-twisted shafts, one side with red stained bases
The king -- 4¼in. (10.8cm.) high; the pawn -- 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high
CIRCA 1950
In the Danish style, the king with pierced two-tier gallery and the queen with a singled tiered gallery, supported on open-twisted shafts, one side with red stained bases
The king -- 4¼in. (10.8cm.) high; the pawn -- 2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) high
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