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An East India (John Company) ivory figural part or composite chess set, Berhampur, circa 1840,

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Lot 117Y
An East India (John Company) ivory figural part or composite chess set,
Berhampur, circa 1840,

Sold for £ 7,500 (US$ 9,077) inc. premium

Chess Sets, Playing Cards and Games

1 May 2012, 13:00 BST

London, Knightsbridge

An East India (John Company) ivory figural part or composite chess set,
Berhampur, circa 1840,
Indian States versus the British East India Company, one side with black stained bases, the other side with green stained bases, kings as elephants with princes and mahout riding in howdahs, queens similar, but of smaller size, bishops as camels, knights as horsemen with curved scimitars, rooks as turrets with cannon, pawns as foot soldiers or sepoys (the black and green bases re-stained, one green pawn and one black pawn missing, the bishops, queens and black king have slightly different bases and are likely to be from a another set of the same period),
the king 9cm high, the pawn 5.6cm high (30).

Footnotes

  • Reference: Michael Mark, "Chessmen Practical and Ornamental", Asprey's, 1986, figure 38: "John set, ivory, Berhampur, late 18th or early 19th century". See also, Schach Partie Durch Zeiten und Welten, figure 156, page 187 for similar East India sets.
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