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French Porcelain Chess Set, Robert Block, Paris, 1939

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French Porcelain Chess Set, Robert Block, Paris, 1939

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French Porcelain Chess Set Designed by Robert Bloch, Porcelaine de Paris, 1939, in black and white and white and black with gilding. The figures are adapted from the Lewis medieval chess men including seated kings and queens, knights on horseback carrying shields, rooks as towers, and the pawns as infantry with shields.

King is 7.6 cm (3 in) and Pawn 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in) high

Exhibition: This set was exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Provenance:
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October
22-24, 1980 , Lot 671

Exhibited: This set was exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Staatliches Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Munich, 1988

Literature: Schachspiele Wandel Im Laufe Der Kunst Und Kulturgeschichte (Chess: Art History and Culture), Staatliches Museum Fur Volkerkunde, 1988, page 65

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French Porcelain Chess Set, Robert Block, Paris, 1939

Name: French Porcelain Chess Set, Robert Block, Paris, 1939
SKU: 49337320
Price: 1000 USD
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