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Book Review
Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands (The al-Sabah Collection / Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah)
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 372-373
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Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
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Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands (The al-Sabah Collection / Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah) By Deborah Freeman Fahid. 344 pp. incl. over 300 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2018),  45. ISBN 978–0–500–97091–1. | :
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Non-western art unattributed:
1. Knight (faras) chess piece. Probably Nishapur, eastern Iran, 8th to 9th century. Alabaster, height 4.9 cm. (The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait).
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2. King (shah) chess piece. Iraq or Khurasan, 9th to early 10th century. Rock crystal, height 6.8 cm. (The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait).
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The Bargello gamesboard: a north-south hybrid
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 716-722
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Nuttall, Paula (Nuttall, Paula)
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7. Moresca, by the Master of Wavrin, from the ‘Histoire du chevalier Paris’. Lille, c.1460–70. Pen and coloured wash on paper, 29 by 21 cm. (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels; MS 9632–33, fol.168r).
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10. Detail of Fig.6, showing athletic games with stone and stave throwing.
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11. Detail of Fig.6, showing the left-hand side of the stag hunt.
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12. Detail of Fig.5, showing the right-hand side of the courtly dance.
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13. Gamesboard. Northern Italy (Venice?), late fifteenth century. Ivory and wood, with bone(?), partially stained green, 62.5 by 60.8 by 6.8 cm. (open). (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
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14. Detail of gamesboard. Spain (Granada?), c.1550–1600. Wood, ivory and bone(?), partially stained green, with silver inlay, 69.5 by 69.5 by 6.4 cm. (open). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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15. Detail of Fig.5, showing tarsia square on chessboard.
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16. Detail of Fig.6, showing hinge-plate.
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17. Comb. Germany, c.1500. Boxwood, with wood and bone tarsia, partially stained green, approx. 14.5 by 13.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
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18. Gamesboard. Southern Netherlands, c.1470–1500. Wood and bone, with traces of polychromy, 27.6 by 24.8 by 1.3 cm. (Detroit Institute of Arts; gift of Mrs William Clay; photograph 1996, copyright of the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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5. Gamesboard (chess side). Southern Netherlands and Spain (Granada?), c.1460–70. Ivory, with wood, bone, partially stained green, and silver inlay, 68 by 68 by 3.1 cm. (open). (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
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6. Gamesboard (tables side). Reverse of Fig.5.
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8. Comb. Southern Netherlands, c.1470–1500. Ivory, with traces of polychromy, 14.5 by 13 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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9. Detail of Fig.5, showing the left-hand side of the moresca.
Book Review
The Ball and the Polo Stick, or Book of Ecstasy
01/1933 | 358 | 62
Pages: 47
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Waley, Hubert D. (Waley, Hubert D.; Waley, Hubert; W., H. D.; Waley, H. D.)
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The Ball and the Polo Stick, or Book of Ecstasy | author: Greenshields, R. S.
Book Review
Jeux à l'Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900 à Paris. Vol.I
04/1904 | 13 | 5
Pages: 107
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Jeux à L\'Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900 à Paris. Vol.I | author: Allemagne, Henry d'