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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
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➡️ digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
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Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
Cf. the discussion in: twitter.com/babel56/status…
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Lucia Moholy (1894-1989)
Chess table by #HeinzNösselt (1900-1950) with #chessmen by #JosefHartwig (1880-1955)
Photography
1924
Private collection
#photography #LuciaMoholy #ChessTable #ChessmenAndChessSets #BauhausChessSet
📷 & ➡️ broehan-museum.de/ausstellung/lu…

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A silver-inlaid, tortoiseshell-veneered, carved ivory and ebonised chess set
Augsburg
Ca. 1705-1709
Private collection
Price realised in 2018 at @ChristiesInc : £416,750
#ChessSet #18thCentury #Augsburg #Germany
📷 & ➡️ christies.com/en/lot/lot-615…

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Chess piece: Bishop
Cologne; England
Ivory
H. 5.2 cm; W. 3.9 cm; D. 2.3 cm
11th-12th century (?)
Musée de Cluny, Paris
#chessmen #ChessPiece #bishop #MiddleAges
📷 @museecluny

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#ChessLiterature
Books and exhibition & auction catalogues on #chessmen and #ChessSet|s.
A nice annotated bibliography by the German #ChessCollector #HolgerLanger with numerous illustrations:
➡️ chess-collection.de/newpage
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Josef Hartwig (1880-1956)
Chess pieces: blue king and orange queen
Wood, paint and felt
6 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm (#king)
5.9 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm (#queen)
1923
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
#ChessPiece #JosefHartwig
#Bauhaus #BauhausChessSet
📷 @harvartmuseums

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National Archaeological Museum Naples (@MANNapoli)
Chess set
3D printing
2022
Official presentation: Dec. 21st, 2022
A somewhat strange idea with regard to the origins of chess 🤔
#chessmen #ChessSet #MANN #3Dprinting #ClassicalAntiquity #sculpture




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Josef Hartwig (1880-1956)
Chess set, Model I
Wood, felt
1922
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass., USA
#chessmen #ChessSet #JosefHartwig
#Bauhaus #BauhausChessSet
📷 WikimediaCommons / @harvartmuseums

@ACCArtBooks @boev @BatsfordBooks @Dt_Kunstverlag @dumontverlag @Harvard_Press @HatjeCantz @HHPublishing @ImhofVerlag @ABRAMSbooks More #chess related publication wishes:
High-quality coffee-table books on:
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#ChessClock|s
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There is still so much to do for #art #book #publisher|s.
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Rupert Grießl (1854-1924, woodcarver from Styria)
Chess set
Lime tree, carved
1898
Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Vienna
#ChessSet #chessmen #RupertGrießl
🖥 (3D model) sketchfab.com/3d-models/ches…
📺 m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Ay93…
📷 @Volkskundemuse

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Baldassare Embriachi (Italian carver, active in Florence and Venice c. 1375-1450)
Chess set
Horn, bone and wood
around 1450
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK
#ChessSet #BaldassareEmbriachi
📷 @AshmoleanMuseum

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"Ströbeck Schach"
Magnetic travel chess set
Board: 20 x 20 cm
Chess pieces: 1,5-3 cm
Germany (GDR)
Ca. 1960s/1970s
📷 Ladenburger Spielzeugauktion, 2015, Nr. 2031; spielzeugauktion.de/catalogs/96/ca…

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Alexander Krylov (b. 1954, Russian master of amber)
Chess set
Amber
Around 2000
Chess set collection Thomas Thomsen, Germany
#ChessAndMusic #ChessSet #AlexanderKrylov
📷 Thomas Thomsen via @SZ
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Chess set made from paper in the Buchenwald camp by political prisoner Hermann Rautenberg, a Jew from Berlin
Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem
#chessmen #ChessSet #HermannRautenberg #Buchenwald #NaziConcentrationCamp #Holocaust
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CARL HANSEN'S ORIGINALE SKAKSPIL
Chess set in its original box
Cast metal (bronce), one side silvered and the other oxidized
Designed by N. Hansen
Danish
Ca. 1875
#ChessSet #chessmen #CarlHansen #Denmark
Description: 👇 (ALT)
📷 auktionsverket.com/arkiv/online/7…

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Chess piece: Knight (Reutter)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #knight #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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Chess piece: Pawn (Soldat)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #pawn #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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Chess piece: Queen (Königin)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #queen #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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