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Chess piece (Side)

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London, The British Museum

1859,0516.1 (Dalton 394)

Walrus ivory

Height: 102mm

King on horseback; archers; arrows; castle; soldiers in armour; shield; lion.

Dalton 1909: German, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: South German, 14th or 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head of the horseman. Other figures damaged.

Provenance
Obtained by Henry Cole (active 1859) from the Collegio Romano, Rome; British Museum, by donation, 1859.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 394, pl. XCIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 725, fig. 2, in relation to no. 247.

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