Gothic Ivories Project | Chess piece (Front)

Chess piece (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 149 C

Ivory

Height: 79mm

Side 1: two wild men fighting with clubs and shields.
Side 2: two men holding hands.
Foliated decoration (roses). Crosshatched background.

Museum's opinion 2012: Netherlandish (?), 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Comments
Chess piece playing the part of the Tower.

Provenance
Vaganay Collection. Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 244, no. 149.
A. Sanvito, Scacchi e tavole da gioco nella Collezione Carrand (Florence, 2000), pp. 38-39, no. 12.

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