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A Visual History of Chessmen

https://chesshistory.github.io/

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#échecs #chess #jeu #game #gameofchess #chessgame #chessboard #chesspieces #chessmen #chessset #roi #king #reine #dame #queen #fou #bishop #cavalier #knight #tour #rook #pion #pawn

#chess #chessmen #woodcarving

New #bookreview: IN WANT OF A VISCOUNT by Lorraine Heath, last book of the #Chessmen series! Lots of heat, intrigue, & a strong female lead make this an #unputdownable read! #LorraineHeath @avonbooks @HarperCollins #Regency #bookstagram #romancestagram

http://stacyalesi.com/2024/03/29/in-want-of-a-viscount-by-lorraine-heath/

Six of the #LewisChessmen from the @britishmuseum on loan in Museum nan Eilean @MuseumnanEilean on Lewis.
outerhebridesheritage.org.uk/event/lewis-ch…
#Chess #ChessHistory #GamesHistory #HistoryOfGames #Chessmen #Archaeology #Museum #Hebrides

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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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Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Sets of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: Gustavus Selenus: Das Schach- oder König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616; Titel page of Part I

I found a kind of low res scan of the Lewis Chessmen. Started cleaning up and adding detail to the queen at lunch, but I need motivation.

The Jerry #Lewis #Chessmen?
The Lewis Black Chessmen?
C.S. Lewis? Jerry Lee Lewis? Huey Lewis?

Or make them evil? Or add googly eyes?

I need ideas!

#NomadSculpt #3DDesign

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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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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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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Shōgi chess board, #chess pieces and spring flowers in blue-and-white porcelain pot
21 x 18.6 cm
Print, surimono
1822
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, USA
#shōgi #ChessSet #chessmen #GraphicArts #KatsushikaHokusai
📷 @harvartmuseums

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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
#chess #ChessCollection

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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

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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

The chess set was a present for the Golden Wedding of Count Hans von Wilczek. The kings – Count Wilczek and the innkeeper of the Wild Alps – the queen’s - count Emma Emo-Capodilista and the landlady of Wildalpen, as well as the respective entourage are portraits.

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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
➡️ & 📷yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibiti…

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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…

"CARL HANSEN'S ORIGINALE SKAKSPIL"
Cast metal chess set, Danish, ca. 1875, one side silvered with white highlights, the other side in oxidised metal, kings holding pots of beer, queens with bustle skirts, bishops as jockeys, knights as donkeys wearing tail coats, rooks as figures on turrets, pawns wearing dungarees, the king 7cm high, the pawn 5cm high, in a fitted presentation box with a sliding lid: "Carl Hansen's Originale Skakspil, modelleret af skulpteur N. Hansen...Paa de til dette skakspil benyttede figurer foreboldes, ifolge sket Anmeldelse, eneret i henold til lov af 31 Marts 1864 jfr jnd. Bekjendtgjorelse af 16 Aug. S. A.", 25cm wide.
Description: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1372775_221c-a-carl-hansen-metal-chess-set-1864

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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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Chess piece: Bishop (Schütze)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #bishop #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
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