Chess piece in the form of two knights
On display
Details
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Title
Chess piece in the form of two knights
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Associated place
England (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
c. 1230 - 1250 -
Material and technique
walrus ivory, with traces of gilding and dark green pant
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.68 cm (height)
6.1 cm (max) (width)
3.8 cm (depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Elias Ashmole in 1677, from the Tradescant collection.
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Museum location
Lower ground floor | Gallery 2 | The Ashmolean Story -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1685.A.587
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Further reading
MacGregor, Arthur, ed., Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), 236, fig. 73
Hook, M., and MacGregor, Medieval England - Archaeological Collections in the Ashmolean Museum from Alfred the Great to Richard III (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1997), 59, illus. 59, fig.80
MacGregor, Arthur, All the Queen's Horses - The Role of the Horse in British History, P. Connor (Lexington, Kentucky, 2003), 15.2, 105, illus. 105
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), 156, p.548, illus. p.548
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.139, illus. p.139
