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An Indian ivory and sandlewood chess set
kings with contrasting finials, kings and queens with crown finials, rooks with mitre finials, knights as horses' heads, rooks of tapering castelatted form, the main pieces with bulbous knop bodies with ringed discs, pawns of baluster form, all pieces on stepped circular bases -- king 3½in. (9cm), pawn 1¾in. (4.4cm); a matching ivory veneered folding games board, the squares of alternating sandlewood and ivory within ivory penwork decorated borders, the interior inlaid for backgammon -- 18 3/16in. (46.5cm) wide, containing an ivory veneered box with similar decoration and 32 ivory and sandlewood gaming counters See Illustration
kings with contrasting finials, kings and queens with crown finials, rooks with mitre finials, knights as horses' heads, rooks of tapering castelatted form, the main pieces with bulbous knop bodies with ringed discs, pawns of baluster form, all pieces on stepped circular bases -- king 3½in. (9cm), pawn 1¾in. (4.4cm); a matching ivory veneered folding games board, the squares of alternating sandlewood and ivory within ivory penwork decorated borders, the interior inlaid for backgammon -- 18 3/16in. (46.5cm) wide, containing an ivory veneered box with similar decoration and 32 ivory and sandlewood gaming counters See Illustration