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Chess piece (Front)

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Secular.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

41.107

Ivory

Height: 46mm
Width: 38mm
Depth: 14mm

Knight in armour on horseback.

Randall 1993: German, 1490-1510.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: black (dots on the saller and the reins).

Provenance
Gift of Arnold Seligmann, Rey, and Co.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 201.

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