Chess: East and West, Past and Present. A Selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection

Chess: East and West, Past and Present. A Selection from the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Collection

Wilkinson, Charles K., and Jessie McNab Dennis

1968

136 pages

117 illustrations

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Table of contents

About the authors

Introduction

Early Pieces

Indian Sets

Indo-Chinese Sets

Chinese Sets

Japanese Sets

Near Eastern Sets

Military Oppositions

Ideological Oppositions

Fanciful Oppositions

American History

Conventional and Abstract Sets

Met Art in Publication

"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings), Abu'l Qasim Firdausi Iranian, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper — "Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

Leaf of a Writing Tablet, Ivory, French — Leaf of a Writing Tablet
14th century

The Chess Players, Liberale da Verona Italian, Tempera on wood — The Chess Players
Liberale da Verona
ca. 1475

Chess set, Max Esser German, Bronze, silver, and ivory, German, Berlin — Chess set
Max Esser
1931–39

Figure of an elephant, possibly a chessman, Dolomite (Ferroan-Dolomite), Sasanian — Figure of an elephant, possibly a chessman
ca. 6th–7th century CE

Chess Piece, Rook, Ivory; carved, painted — Chess Piece, Rook
9th–12th century

Carved Figural Chess Piece or Container, Ivory; carved and incised — Carved Figural Chess Piece or Container
11th–12th century

Chess Piece, Probably a Pawn, Ivory — Chess Piece, Probably a Pawn
11th–12th century

Chess Piece, Bishop, Ivory — Chess Piece, Bishop
8th–10th century

Bishop Chess Piece, Walrus ivory, Scandinavian — Bishop Chess Piece
1150–1200

Knight Chess Piece, Walrus ivory, British — Knight Chess Piece
ca. 1250

Chess Piece, Bishop, Ivory — Chess Piece, Bishop
late 17th–early 18th century

Chessmen, Ivory, Indian — Chessmen
18th century

Chessmen, Ivory, Indian — Chessmen
18th century

Chessmen (32), Ivory, Indian, Bengal — Chessmen (32)
late 18th century

Chessmen (32), Silver, Indian — Chessmen (32)
ca. 1806–37

Chessmen (32), Ivory, Indian — Chessmen (32)
18th–19th century

Chessmen (32), Ivory, Indian — Chessmen (32)
18th–19th century

Chessmen (32) and board with box, Jade, brown onyx marble, bronze, mother-of-pearl, Indian — Chessmen (32) and board with box
18th–19th century

Chessmen (32), Ivory, Indian, possibly Bengal — Chessmen (32)
second half 19th century

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