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Description: | One of a 32 piece set of wooden chess pieces from The Maldives. One of a pair, made of turned wood, natural colour and varnished. It is short, has a round base and a narrow mid-section, with a round top. Engraved using a thin circular banding at three points on the object, at the top and base of the stem and around the top. Each engraving is painted red.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 3.169xxi | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood varnish chess pieces paint Family and Home | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-55648 | Go to resource |
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