Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

The inlay appears to imitate vegetation and has been filled with black pigment.

[Asia Society 2004]

[ Raphael Stora, Paris]; Alphonse Kann, Paris (before 1926); Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin; his sale, Helbing, Frankfurt, June 23, 1936, lot 28,; [ Stiebel Ltd., New York, until 1940, sold to Brummer]; [ Joseph Brummer, New York, 1940–48; sold to Martin]; Alastair Bradley Martin (American)(1948–49; gifted to MMA)

New York. Asia Society. "Asian Games: The Art of Contest," October 14, 2004–January 18, 2005, no. 12:26.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "Asian Games: The Art of Contest," February 26, 2005–May 15, 2005, no. 12:26.

Middlebury College Museum of Art. "Asian Games: The Art of Contest," September 8, 2005–December 11, 2005, no. 12:26.

New York. The Cloisters Museum & Gardens. "The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis," November 15, 2011–April 22, 2012, no catalogue.

New York. The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith," August 30, 2021–January 30, 2022.

Goldschmidt, Adolph. Die Elfenbeinskulpturen aus der romanischen Zeit, XI.-XIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 4. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1926. p. 6, ill. 11.

McNab, Jessie. "A Selection from the Gustavius A. Pfeiffer Collection." In Chess: East and West, Past and Present. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. no. 5, ill.

Kühnel, Ernst. Islamic Arts. London: Bell, 1970. ill. fig. 192.

Kühnel, Ernst, and J. & S. Goldschmidt. Die Islamische Elfenbeinskulpturen VII–XIII Jahrhundert. no. 30. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1971. no. 10, p. 28, ill. pl. V.

Ettinghausen, Richard. "Islamic Art." MMA Bulletin vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 1975). p. 47, ill. (b/w).

Bornstein, Christine Verzar, and Priscilla P. Soucek. The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1981. ill.

Fahid, Deborah Freeman. Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018. p. 302.

Carboni, Stefano. "Chessmen in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Scacchi e Scienze Applicate suppl. no. 7, fasc. 15 (1996). pp. 5–6, ill. (b/w).

Mackenzie, Colin, and Irving Finkel, ed. Asian Games. The Art of Contest. New York: Asia Society, 2004. no. 12:26, p. 155, ill. (color).

Perratore, Julia. "Art at the Frontiers of Faith : Spain 1000–1200." MMA Bulletin (2021). p. 21, ill. fig. 24.

Dunn-Vaturi, Anne-Elizabeth, and Martina Rugiadi. "in: The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York. Edited by Biro, Brennan and Force." In The Brummer Gallery and the Making of Iranian and Islamic Art, edited by Yaëlle Biro, Christine Brennan, and Christel Hollevoet-Force. Brill, 2023. p. 447.