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Chess piece (Side)

Chess piece (Side)
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Subject
Secular.


Unknown location

S/n

Walrus ivory

Height: 73 mm

Seated king; throne; crown; birds (eagles).

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of one of the eagles.

Provenance
Robert von Hirsch collection: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 269.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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