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Ivory rook chess-piece

  • Details

    Associated place
    Africa Egypt (possible place of creation)
    Date
    15th century - 1st half of the 17th century
    Material and technique
    ivory, inlaid with wood
    Dimensions
    4.6 cm (height)
    2.7 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    organicvegetal wood
    Technique index
    formed carved,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by the Reverend Greville J. Chester, 1891.
    Accession no.
    EAX.3324
  • Further reading

    Contadini, Anna, ‘Islamic Ivory Chess Pieces, Draughtsmen and Dice’, James Allan, ed., Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Part One, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, 10 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), x.1, no. 7 on p. 139, pp. 118 - 119, & 122, fig. 22 p. 122

Location

    • Lower ground floor | Room 1 | Exploring the Past

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