Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Chipped.

Provenance
Registered in the inventory of the Museum Wormianum in 1653 and 1655, wherefrom it entered the inventories of Det kgl. Kunstkammer (The Royal Danish Kunstkammer, 1650-1825) of 1674 and 1690. After the Kunstkammer was dissolved the piece appeared in the inventory of the Museum Regum of 1699 and 1710. Registered in the inventory of the Det kgl. Kunstmuseum (The Royal Danish Art Museum, 1825-1867) in 1825, in the inventory of Museet for Nordiske Oldsager (Museum of Northern Antiquities 1819-1892) in 1845, in the inventory of Nationalmuseet (The National Museum of Denmark, 1892-).

Bibliography
D. M. Lindell, Chessman (New York, 1937), p. 131.
H. and S. Wichmann, Chess: the Story of Chesspieces from Antiquity to Modern Times (New York, 1964), p. 289.
H. D. Schepeler, Museum Wormianum (Copenhagen, 1971), p. 360.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 81, fig. 75.
B. Gundestrup, Det Kongelige danske Kunstkammer 1737 (Esbjerg, 1991), vol. II, p. 186.
P. Grinder-Hansen, Nationalmuseets vejledninger, Danmarks middelalder og Renæssance (Copenhagen, 2002), p. 79.
P. Grinder-Hansen, 'Skakspil', in Europa mødern verden (Copenhagen, 2012), p. 140.