Showing a strong connection between Church and State.
I don't think I would like to rely on this bunch to save my soul.
this ecumenical gathering begs a question about what power these unsavory characters weilded.
Heraldic designs on the 'Lewis' chess men sheilds.
Clearly dipicting Adam and Eve, getting right stuck into the apples. (and the serpent of course.) Thought by some scholars to be pomegranates not apples. so if you are in the rag trade, thank 'God' for that, otherwise we would all be walking round naked, (and bloody freezing BTW
found in the Louvre Paris, supposed to be Danish, like the Lewis men. Depicting the 'thought' and the sword.
The Bishop in this 18c Dieppe set with a big hooked nose supposed to be Cardinal Richeleau. These pieces, particulally in France were often made many years after the people they depicted. After all, they could hardly be made before
Blackamore king and queen, from the French African colonies
The black Bishops look European, as they should
Hello Cardinal, killed many today? "No, only a few hundred".
The resons given for the lack of recognisable figural shape given to these 'Muslim' pieces is surely a strong religious comment, as strong as showing two warring factions.
the royal figures continue even in these cheap Jonchets (Spillikins) pieces. made by the million in the 1920s for the Paris games compendiums. Thought by some uninformed collectors to be chess pieces, (Ha Ha Ha)
The simple shapes of these Decabristi pieces speaks volumes.
Note the three crowns, and then go and consult Gareth Williams.
A comment on the conflict of Catholic v protestantism in England.
Lotto Dauphin.
John Co.
These were made by Bertram Jones for Mackett-Beeson around 1950.The model for the "pawns" , was a French "furled flag"
Lot 166 £16,800
Geislingen piece, note the similarity to some of the Amsterdam Museum pieces
A set by the famous sculptor Oleg Rakis. note the hooded Monks. and the similarity of the kings to a well known but reclusive north London collector.... (2600 sets and counting.)
