Chessmen (32) and box-board by Andreas Schluter, Danzig and the Court of Berlin|Friederich Donaleitis

Medium

Silver, silver-gilt

Dimensions

Height (each king): 3 in. (7.6 cm); Height (each pawn): 2 in. (5.1 cm); Overall (board): 3 3/4 × 17 1/8 × 17 1/8 in. (9.5 × 43.5 × 43.5 cm)

Classification

Chess Sets

Culture

German

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948

Accession Number

48.174.73a–p, aa–pp, q

Tags

Chess

About the Artist

Andreas Schluter, Danzig and the Court of Berlin|Friederich Donaleitis ( | ) · 1675 | 1705 |

|Konigsberg

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