Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: small loss to figure's hat and horse's left ear.
Vertical groove down the centre at the back of the base.

Comments
The Victoria and Albert Museum online catalogue (accessed 2011) suggests that this chess piece may be a product of the same workshop, or even part of the same chess set, as the knights in the British Museum, London (1984.214 Dalton 494), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1984.214).

Provenance
Acquired in 1856 (in Paris, according to Longhurst).

Bibliography
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 31.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 11.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 824 ('73.311).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), p. 159.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 87, pl. LXXV.
D. M. Liddell, Chessmen (New York, 1937), p. 143.
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, no. 289, fig. 37.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 248.