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GEISLINGEN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A GERMAN POLYCHROME BUST BONE CHESS SET
GEISLINGEN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The kings and queens modelled with open-crowns and holding sceptres, the bishops wearing leather tri-corn hats, the knights as sea-horses, the rooks as turrets with ball-knop finials, fitted in a later associated mahogany case
The king -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high; the pawn -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
GEISLINGEN, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The kings and queens modelled with open-crowns and holding sceptres, the bishops wearing leather tri-corn hats, the knights as sea-horses, the rooks as turrets with ball-knop finials, fitted in a later associated mahogany case
The king -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high; the pawn -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high
Provenance
Property from The Ernst Boehlen Collection, Bloomsbury, London, 26 October 2004, lot 133.
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