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Chess piece (Back)

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Front

Side

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Stockholm, Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum)

Inv. 15686

Ivory

Height: 71mm

Standing knight in armour; sword; shield.

Museum's opinion 2013: English (?), late 12th-early 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Found in Solberga, Öland. Collection of E. W. Reitz: his sale to the Museum in 1916.

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