GEISLINGEN, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GERMAN POLYCHROME CARVED BONE BUST TYPE CHESS SET
GEISLINGEN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The kings and queens modelled as monarchs, the bishops in leather hats, the knights as sea horses, the rooks as turrets, the pawns with engine-turned knopped stems
The king -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high; the pawn -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high

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For a comparable Nuremberg bone 18th century example see The Ettore Chiesa Collection of Chess Sets, these Rooms, 20 September 2006, lot 142, and The Ernst Boehlen Chess Collection, Phillips, London, November 1998, lot 56. It is noted, that these sets have traditionally been attributed to Dieppe carvers, however, recent research suggests these sets can be attributed to a school of carving based in Geislingen. A bone Geislingen example, dated circa 1775, is illustrated in Hans und Barbara Holländer, Schach Partie Durch Zeiten und Welten, Hamburg, Exhibition Catalogue, 2005, fig. 124, page 156.