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The hinged playing chessboard opening to a red velvet-lined interior with chain fittings for storage, each side with enameled scenes of soldiers, the angles with pawns, on four pierced foliate bracket supports mounted with cabochon amethyst and pearls, with two sets of teal, white, cobalt, and red enameled pieces on circular openwork bases, with an associated modern plexiglass display vitrine, marked 925 throughout
2134 in. (55.2 cm.) square, the base
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Another example of this model was sold at Christie's, New York, 17 October 2017, lot 230.

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