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A BURMESE CARVED IVORY FIGURAL SET

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A BURMESE CARVED IVORY FIGURAL SET
18th Century One side stained dark red, the other side left natural, kings and queens as crouching deities, bishops as towers, knights on horseback, rooks as figures on elephants, pawns as crouching monkeys, the king 3 1/4 inches high, the pawn 2 1/2 inches high. NOTE: This set is illustrated in Alex Hammond, The Book of Chessmen, p. 109, Pl. x, fig. 2. PROVENANCE: Sotheby Parke Bernet: The Harbeson Collection, October 5th, 1979, lot 537. $5,000-7,000