"Bears of Berne" chess set

Unknown maker

Medium: Ivory, wood
Dimensions: Height (each king): 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Height (each pawn): 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Overall (board): 2 × 15 1/4 × 15 1/4 in. (5.1 × 38.7 × 38.7 cm); Overal (box): 4 5/8 × 17 × 17 in. (11.7 × 43.2 × 43.2 cm)
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Classification: Chess Sets
Dated: second half 19th century
Pixels: 4000 × 2474
SHA-256: 074fef4cd46b529b…
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License, verbatimCC0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.

"Bears of Berne" chess set. second half 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.