The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Product:Fine art poster 6th June 1982

6th June 1982

Giovanni Agnelli

the Master of St John

his ermine robes have been casually thrown over a chair

(The Charmer of Birds)

The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Product:Fine art poster 6th June 1982The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?), c1150 c1200, (c1920). Nine ivory chess pieces from a collection of ninety three found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82