Queen chess piece
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
Unknown
Materials
ivory
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107840.21
Summary
A chess piece from Murshidabad, Bengal. It is the queen and in the shape of an elephant a driver and an uncovered howdah containing two people. The base is stained red. 'Sixteen carved ivory chessmen - Murshidabad, Bengal' (Christie's entry)
Provenance
Curzon Collection acquired by gift as part of the transfer of Kedleston Hall to The National Trust in 1986.