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A FRENCH CARVED IVORY BUST TYPE CHESS SET
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A FRENCH CARVED IVORY BUST TYPE CHESS SET

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH CARVED IVORY BUST TYPE CHESS SET
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The white side modelled as Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte, versus the green stained Turkish Ottoman Sultan and Sultana, the bishops as fous and North Africans in turbans, the knights as horses' heads, the rooks as turrets, the pawns as soldiers, on baluster-vase turned bases
The king -- 3½in. (8.8cm.) high; the pawn -- 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high
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Lot Essay

For a similar example of a carved ivory set depicting Napoleon but versus Henri IV, circa 1800 and attributed to the Dieppe workshops see the exhibtion catalogue for Spielwelten der Kunst - Kunstkammerspiele, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien,1998, fig. 132, page 251.

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