Thirty Years War chessmen (32) and board

Unknown maker

Medium: Silver, silver-gilt, sycamore and ebonized wood, brass
Dimensions: Height (silver king, confirmed): 2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm); Height (gold king, confirmed:) 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm); Height (gold knight, confirmed): 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm); Height (silver knight, confirmed): 2 1/8 in. (5.3 cm); Overall (board, confirmed): 1 7/8 × 14 × 14 in. (4.8 × 35.6 × 35.6 cm).
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Classification: Chess Sets
Dated: ca. 1860
Pixels: 4000 × 1235
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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.

Thirty Years War chessmen (32) and board. ca. 1860. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.