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Chess piece (Side)

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Subject
Secular.

Unknown location

S/n

Walrus ivory.

Height: 67mm
Width: 20mm

Queen on horseback; female and male figures; clerics.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Comments
Incised inscription 'VILLET' and ink inscription 'WOA 1403' on the underside.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 20 December 1982. European private collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 31.

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