CAST BY THE ZIMMERMANN FOUNDRY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

These chess figures represent characters from Goethe’s fable ‘Reynard the Fox’, first published in 1793 and republished in 1846 with illustrations by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874). The set was cast by the iron foundry E.G. Zimmermann, who were established in 1839, Hanau, Germany and produced a wider variety of decorative objects in iron and zinc.