Lot 172
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AN ANGLO-INDIAN SANDALWOOD, IVORY AND HORN VENEERED GAMES COMPENDIUM
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AN ANGLO-INDIAN SANDALWOOD, IVORY AND HORN VENEERED GAMES COMPENDIUM

VIZAGAPATAM, MID 19TH CENTURY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN SANDALWOOD, IVORY AND HORN VENEERED GAMES COMPENDIUM
VIZAGAPATAM, MID 19TH CENTURY
Comprising; a games box with engraved shell-lac Greek-key borders, the interior inlaid for backgammon, fitted with three sandalwood boxes with sliding covers, containing a chess set with the royal pieces with openwork crowns, the bishops with mitres, knights as horses heads, rooks as imbricated towers, and thirty-two horn and ivory draughts counters and two shakers with four bone dice, with a key
The king -- 4¼in. (10.8cm.); the pawn -- 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high; the box -- 18¼in. (46.5cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

As a renowned centre of turned and carved ivory and horn chess sets, together with engraved shell-lac decoration, Vizagapatam, flourished and maintained a high standard of quality throughout the 19th Century and into the 20th Century. See Michael Mark ibid.

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