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Chess piece

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 79mm
Width: 69mm
Depth: 31mm

Front
Seated male figure (vizier?); palmettes.
Side 1
Horse.
Side 2
Soldier holding a spear; shield; scroll.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Worn.

Provenance
Fuld collection (Frankfurt), in 1926. Christie's, London, 9 April 1979, lot 116. Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1996 (British Rail Pension Fund)..

Bibliography
A . Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen aus der romanischen Zeit (Berlin, 1926), IV, no. 251, pl. a-c.
J. Ferrandis Torres, Marfiles y azabaches españoles (Barcelona, 1928), p. 183, pl. XXI.

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