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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 a nut brown color, the other side left natural, kings with open galleried crowns incorporating a seated prince of alternate color, queens with foliate decoration and mounted kneeling viziers, bishops with curved foliate mitres, knights as rearing horses, rooks as turrets mounted with standard bearers, again in an alternate color, the king 5 inches high, the pawn 2 3/4 inches high. Some damage. . PROVENANCE: Sotheby Parke Bernet: The Harbeson Collection, October 5th, 1979, lot 425. $2,000-3,000