Attack of a castle; soldiers in armour with crossbows and swords; soldiers fighting.
Museum's opinion 2012: England (?), 13th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
The conical shape crowning the chess piece is made of a different piece of ivory. Vertical crack.
Provenance
Emile Lévy collection: bought from him in 1871.
Bibliography
Le temps des jeux: perdre ou gagner en société, exhibition catalogue, Saint-Riquier, Musée départemental, 1998, no. 41.
O. Guillot, Hugues Capet et les premiers Capétiens (Paris, 2002), p. 126.
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