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A 19th century Indian provincial ivory chess set, one side stained purple, this bishop or wazier is portrayed as a mounted warrior, 7.5cm high maximum.Provenance: See: Frye Collection. Christie’s 29/7/78, Ill.339 Condition report: A full chess set of 32 pieces in total. Parasols from elephant piece are seperate but provided. Fading to dye on a knight and elephant in the black set, and glue marks to the base of some red pawns. Minor cracking to the top of one rook in the black set. Both elephants on the white set has discolouration marks and one with a slight crack to body and head. Some pawns have glue marks and some discoloured cracking lines to their bases. Both whte rooks have cracking which has discolured to the base and exteriors.

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