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Chess piece

Chess piece
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Subject
Secular.

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Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse

A.1579

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 93mm

Attack of a castle; soldiers in armour with crossbows and swords; soldiers fighting.

Museum's opinion 2012: England (?), 13th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
The conical shape crowning the chess piece is made of a different piece of ivory. Vertical crack.

Provenance
Emile Lévy collection: bought from him in 1871.

Bibliography
Le temps des jeux: perdre ou gagner en société, exhibition catalogue, Saint-Riquier, Musée départemental, 1998, no. 41.
O. Guillot, Hugues Capet et les premiers Capétiens (Paris, 2002), p. 126.


Image

© Musée de la Chartreuse - Douai. Photography: Daniel Lefebvre.

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