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| Keywords: Spanish - Chess Piece of a Queen - Walters 71145 - Three Quarter.jpg This chess piece of a queen seated inside a castle is modeled on similar pieces made in the Arab world in the 8th and 9th centuries and brought to western Europe as gifts or articles of trade The queen's headdress a close-fitting hood with headband is typical though of royal garments worn in 12th-century Spain The piece is carved from a walrus tusk used as a cheaper alternative to elephant ivory This is the only medieval chesspiece of a queen in an American collection century 12 Medieval walrus ivory cm 7 1 4 4 6 8 accession number 71 145 6861 Count Auguste de Bastard Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henri Daguerre Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 The Medieval Craftsman and His Modern Counterpart Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington; Newcomb Art Gallery Tulane University New Orleans 1959 History of Chess Stanford University Stanford 1960 The Song of Roland Palmer Museum of Art University Park 1978 Checkmate Medieval People at Play Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2010 place of origin Spain Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Chess in Spain Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 12th-century chess | ||||
