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AN INDIAN VIZAGAPATAM IVORY PLAYING SET

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AN INDIAN VIZAGAPATAM IVORY PLAYING SET
Circa 1840 One side stained dark brown, the other side left natural, kings with pierced galleries and foliate knops, queens with split feathered open crowns, bishops as pierced mitres, knights as horses' heads, rooks as slender turrets raised on circular bases, pawns with decorated bulbous knops, the king 5 inches high, the pawn 21/2 inches high. . PROVENANCE: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York: The Harbeson Collection, October 5th, 1979, lot 434. $2,000-3,000