A German porcelain chess set

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A German porcelain chess set
probably Frstenburg, in the manner of Meissen, the pieces in the Turkish style, enamelled in blue and heightened in gilt, the royal pieces with openwork crowns (white queen restored), the bishops with cleft mitres, knights with horses heads, rooks as castellated turrets, pawns of vase-shape with ball knop finials, the baluster stems and bases decorated with foliate scrolls and trailing vines, the pieces unmarked, the kings 3¼in. (8.3cm.) high, the pawns 2in. (5cm.) high See Illustration

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue, Jessie McNab Dennis, Chess: East and West, Past and Present, a Selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection, 1968. Ref.104.

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