Andrzej Lubomirski with children.
XIX/XX wiek
Castle Museum in Łańcut
Part of the collection: Orient
Chess. Wooden square chessboard, folded inside, covered from the bottom with olive-brown material. The chessboard field is divided with thin metal sheets into squares filled with ivory tiles - white, yellow and brown, arranged alternately. The edges of the squares are decorated with a rhythmical geometric decoration with a delicate drawing, stained black. Chamfered edges of the chessboard, covered with rectangular bone slabs decorated with an engraved ornament of loosely scattered twigs. The ivory pieces, in number of 32, 16 in dark brown and 16 in white. Persia, 17th century.
Dimensions
height: 1 cm, width: 22.3 cm
Object type
Orient
Material
wood, elephant bone
Creation time / dating
Owner
Castle Museum in Łańcut
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Location / status
XIX/XX wiek
Castle Museum in Łańcut
2nd half of the 19th century
National Museum in Lublin
late 18th century
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