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Auction House:
Philips Auctions Australia
Number of lots recorded:13
Lots with images:13
Prices available:13
Category:
Games & Puzzles
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A Chinese lacquered games set, late 19th century, the folding box with external chess board fashioned from mother of pearl and lacquered checks and internally a gilt and lacquer backgammon board all complete with thirty two ivory chess figures. Height 9.5… ***
*** A set of Chinese carved ivory chess pieces and an antique Chinese lacquered games box, the set comprising twelve natural-coloured pieces and twelve red-stained (one pawn replaced with an associated chequer piece); the exterior of the games box with black… ***
*** A fine Chinese papier mache lacquerware games box, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. rectangular with canted corners and a conforming low domed cover, with seven fitted boxes and twelve small trays, intricately decorated throughout with vegetal forms, animals… ***
*** A Indian ivory chess set, circa 1900, a delightful painted ivory set with Indian warrior pawns, and figures upon horseback, camels and caparisoned elephants, cased in the original silk lined box. Heights: 3.5 cm. to 7.5 cm ***
*** A carved and painted ivory chess set, circa 1860, containing a well carved full red and white chess set. Height 10 cm ***
*** A Chinese export timber cased Mahjong set, 1920s, retailed through Hamleys London, in a metal trimmed oak oriental cabinet with a sliding front and small drawers, with 144 tiles in bone and bamboo, extra tiles, sticks and counters, (apparently complete),… ***
*** A Chinese cased mahjong set, 20th century, the brass bounded box with twin handles set with carved bone and bamboo mahjong set. Height 17 cm. Length 24 cm. Width 17 cm ***
*** Two miniature vintage ivory chess sets, mid 20th century, Oriental and Eastern travelling sets housed in hinged parquetry chess board boxes, height 6.5 cm, and smaller ***
*** An English pewter 'Armada' chess set, finely modelled as replicas of the principal figures of the 1588 campaign including Sir Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth I and Spain's Prince Philip II, with fighting ships from the English and Spanish fleets serving as… ***
*** A fine Chinese export ivory cribbage board, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the rectangular board with a shaped end, exquisitely carved in relief with arabesques and chrysanthemum flowers, with three central panels comprising figural narratives in pavilion… ***
*** A set of Chinese mother-of-pearl Gaming Counters, late 19th/early 20th century, comprising ten rectangular counters, four shaped and decorated as fish, two elliptical counters, and two discs, all with finely incised decoration to both sides, the… ***
*** Four vintage ivory ornaments, probably chess pieces, mid 20th century, Brickwork towers with double doors and each with a figure in a window, height 8 cm ***
*** A sterling silver leather lined playing card box, 1899 London, with maker's mark, W.F.W for Wright & Davies, of plain form, with 'Patience' in relief to the piano hinged lid, initialled, to lower right, leather lined, leather base with plaster fill,… ***