A Spanish bone chess set of pulpit type, late 18th or early 19th century

细节

A Spanish bone chess set of pulpit type, late 18th or early 19th century
stained dark brown and natural, the royal pieces carved with stiff-leaf galleries below crowns, with cruciform finials to the kings, and stepped concentric disc finials to the queens, the bishops similarly modelled with stiff-leaves below mitre finials, the knights with horses' heads, the rooks of turret form, with spire finials terminating in ball knops, the pawns of slender baluster form, with cone-shaped finials, all on circular bases, restorations, king -- 3½in. (8.7cm) high, pawn -- 2½in. (6.2cm) high
See Illustration.

拍品专文

A comparative lot sold in these rooms 27 September 1994, lot 63.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Alex Hammond, The book of Chessmen, Arthur Baker, London 1950. Fig.L1.
Victor Keats, Chessmen for Collectors, Batsford, London 1985. P.48-51, fig.48.
A.E.J. Mackett-Beeson, Chessmen, Octopus, London 1973. P.47-51, fig.63.