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Click here to subscribeLaura V Hardy late 20th/early 21st century- Floral still life with chess pieces; oil on canvas, signed, 60x49.5cm. Note: The artist, based in North London and subsequently in Bath, Somerset, has exhibited widely, included at The Royal Academy in 1964, 1964, 1965 and 1966; The New English Art Club in 1992 and 1994. (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
An English turned ivory chess set, natural and stained to simulate tortoiseshell, 19th century, the King 3.5in (9cm) h, the pawn 1.75in (4.5cm) h. (32) Minor chips, one stained Rook missing finial, white King missing finial, one white pawn replaced in bone, one stained pawn replaced in wood.
Hoyle (Edmond) A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, 1746, [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille, 1745, [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet ...Some Rules and Observations for ... Chess, 1746 [with] A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon, 1745, signed by author to deter pirate editions, contemporary calf (very worn, upper board detached and held by taped hinge
A good Victorian Walnut Games Box, with ebonised rims, lifting lid and opening front enclosing fitted chess pieces, cribbage scoreboard, dice, counters and draughts pieces, and with further lift-out trays below fitted with playing cards and counters, racing game below with lead horses and fences etc, ebonised gavel, dice cup etc, 12 ½” wide
A 19th century black lacquered and gilt chinoiserie decorated chess/backgammon board, the exterior chequerboard decorated with plain gold panels and figural decorated black panels within a border depicting figures in garden settings, the sides similarly decorated opening to reveal a flower and butterfly decorated backgammon board, 49.3 cm x 49.3 cm (open)
19th CENTURY INLAID ROSEWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE, the octagonal top inlaid with a chess board, over a plain frieze with bead and reel border, raised on a boldly turned column issuing from a quatrefoil platform, supported on flattened bun feet; together with a modern wooden chess set. 0.70m by 0.44m
Chess--Singer, Samuel Weller Researches into the history of playing cards. London: R. Triphook, 1816, first edition, 4to, one of 250 copies, title printed in red and black, half-title, list of subscribers, 8 plain and 11 hand-coloured plates, engravings and woodcuts in the text, some on india paper, contemporary diced calf, spine gilt, very neatly rebacked, red morocco label Note: One of the rarest English works devoted to chess. "Singer's most interesting compilation... only two hundred and fifty copies were printed. The beauty of the engravings added greatly to the work's value and interest" (DNB). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet, gilt arms on sides
Original Illustration - Chess, Victoria The witch mobile, 1969, original illustration from the book by Miriam Young, approx 14cm by 23cm high, framed and glazed, ; Grabianski, J. Cat by the dustbin, 1966, original endpaper illustration from Margaret Green's The big book of pets, approx 37cm by 25cm high, framed and glazed; Green, Margaret The big book of pets. New York, 1966. First American edition, 8vo, signed by the illustrator, dustwrapper [torn at edges]; Ibid. The big book of animal stories. New York, 1961, 8vo, signed by the illustrator, dustwrapper; Murdocca, Sal Original illustration from Tuttle's shell, 1976, approx 12 by 10.5cm high, framed and glazed [with] a copy of the book in dustwrapper (6)
A Chinese ivory gaming piece (?) formed with a stylised lotus base, a central stem with a concentric pierced and carved balls and topped with a group of the Heavenly Twins, 8.5ins (21.8cm) high; a Chinese ivory chess piece of a court official with long pigtail down his back and holding a ruyi sceptre, 2.75ins (7cm), and three indian ivory figures; all nineteenth /twentieth century. (5)
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