Chessmen (32) and box-board

Unknown maker

Medium: Amber, leather, brass
Dimensions: Overall (board, confirmed): 1 3/4 × 15 3/16 × 15 1/16 in. (4.4 × 38.6 × 38.3 cm); Height (clear king, confirmed(: 4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm); Height (clear, pawn, confirmed): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); Height (opaque king, confirmed): 4 5/16 in. (10.9 cm); Height (opaque pawn, confirmed): 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Overall (original box): 4 1/2 × 16 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (11.4 × 41.3 × 26 cm)
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Classification: Chess Sets
Dated: 19th century
Pixels: 4000 × 2442
SHA-256: 5a759bf4b8ad8385…
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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.

Chessmen (32) and box-board. 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.