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Chess piece (Front)

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Secular.

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Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, The Spurlock Museum

1936.02.0003

Ivory

Height: 62mm
Width: 22mm
Depth: 17mm
Weight: 15g

Standing king; crown.

Museum's opinion 2012: Western Europe, 16th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: the object he held in his right hand (possibly a sceptre?).

Provenance
Purchased by Neil C. Brooks, Director of Museum of European Cultures, for the museum during a trip to Germany in 1936.

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