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Ivory rook chess-piece

  • Details

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    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
    organic › animal › tooth › mammal tooth › ivory,
    organic › vegetal › wood
    Technique index
    formed › carved,
    carved,
    covered › inlaid
    Object type index
    games/sporting equipment › game › game-piece › chess-piece
    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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