Chinese Export Ivory Chess Set
A Fine Chinese Export Ivory Chess Set
Depicting George III as King and Queen Charlotte, and consorts, Bishops (as mandarins, Knights as horses, Rooks as turrets (flying the Union Flag) the white pawns wearing caps, the Chinese pawns with oriental moustache’s
The ivory particularly finely ‘undercut’, the whole set exceptionally carved
Macao or Canton
Circa 1820
Size: Kings: 11cm max (max) – pawns: 6cm high
Depicting George III as King and Queen Charlotte, and consorts, Bishops (as mandarins, Knights as horses, Rooks as turrets (flying the Union Flag) the white pawns wearing caps, the Chinese pawns with oriental moustache’s
The ivory particularly finely ‘undercut’, the whole set exceptionally carved
Macao or Canton
Circa 1820
Size: Kings: 11cm max (max) – pawns: 6cm high
Ref: Michael Mark; ‘Chessman, Practical and Ornamental’ Asprey, 1986, figure, 48
Chinese Export Ivory Chess Set
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