Chess pieces "John Company"

Chess pieces "John Company"

carved ivory "Hindus and Sikhs"
base of one of the sets dyed, both sets with Kings and Queens as «Howdah», Bishops as "Militarys riding camels", one set with Knights as a tigger and a buffalo, other set with knights riding horses, one set with rooks as rhinoceros, other set with rooks as "Militarys on the top of a tower"
Indian
19th C.
a horse with a broken and glued leg, chip, minor faults
Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (rei) 12 cm
Notes: vd. "O Xadrez e o Cérebro - Arte e Ciência". Parma: Franco Maria Ricci - Fundação Champalimaud, 2021, pp. 100.

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