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A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 7,5 cm, W: 7,4 cm
French or possibly German (Lower Rhine, Cologne)
c. 1320-30
Victoria and Albert Museum, London #chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106326/a…

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1. Museo Nazionale del Bargello
2. @state_hermitage
3. @rijksmuseum
4. @Musei_Vaticani

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A couple playing chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 9,8 cm, W: 10,5 cm
German (?)
mid 14th century
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA (@walters_museum)
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ & 📷 art.thewalters.org/detail/18374/m…

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A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 10,5 cm, W: 10,4 cm
French (Paris)
c. 1300
Victoria and Albert Museum, London #chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O88470/a-…

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A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 8,7 cm; W: 8,4 cm
France (Paris) or Germany (Lower Rhine, Cologne)
c. 1320
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O312913/a…

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A Game of Chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
H: 10,7 cm W: 10,7 cm
French (Paris)
c. 1320-1330
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166114/a…

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A chess game
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
11,5 cm (diam.)
France (Ile-de-France)
around 1300
Musée du Louvre, Paris
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges
➡️ collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl0…

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Cover of a mirror case with a man and a woman playing chess
Ivory, carved
8 cm (diam.)
France (Paris?)
2nd half of the 14th century
Vatican Museums, Rom, Italy
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges

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Cover of a mirror case with a man and a woman playing chess
Ivory, carved
8,2 cm (diam.)
French (Île-de-France)
c. 1350
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges

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A game of chess
Mirror case
Ivory, carved
France (Paris?)
14th century
The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
#chess #ChessPlayer #VisualArts #sculpture #MirrorCase #MiddleAges