Primary Sources & Image Rights

 

Chessmen (32). 1853. Ivory. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/201549. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Stanton, Byron W. Chessmen (30) and box. Circa 1863-1865. Wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199908. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Chess set. Late 18th century. Bronze and wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199918. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 1.0.

 

Flaxman, John. Chessmen (32). Early 19th century. Jasperware. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/201500. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Chess Set. 12th century. Molded stonepaste. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452204. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Chessmen (32). Early 18th century. Silver. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199898. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Lewis Chessmen. 13th century. Walrus ivory. National Museums Scotland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NMSLewisChessmen21.jpg. Holding Institution: National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Image courtesy of National Museums Scotland via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

 

Charlemagne Chessmen. 12th century. Ivory.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echiquier_de_Charlemagne_reine_CdM.jpg. Holding Institution: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Image courtesy of user Siren-Com via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

 

Niemeier, Max Nicholas. Chess set. 1917. Pear wood. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200048. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

 

Chessmen (32). Late 18th century. Ivory with lacquer and gilding. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/200032. Holding Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.

Secondary Sources

 

Caldwell, David H., Mark A. Hall, and Caroline M. Wilkinson. “The Lewis Hoard of Gaming Pieces: A Re-Examination of Their Context, Meanings, Discovery and Manufacture.” Medieval Archaeology 53, no. 1 (2009): 155–203. https://doi.org/10.1179/007660909X12457506806243.

 

Dillon, Patrick. “Artefacts, Found Objects and Early Games. A Cultural Ecological Perspective on Proto-Chess Pieces.” Time and Mind 13, no. 1 (2020): 59–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2020.1718312.

 

Golombek, Harry. A History of Chess. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

 

Spanos, Apostolos. “Chess as a Historical Source.” In Games of History : Games and Gaming as Historical Sources, 143-152. Routledge, 2021.

 

Speciale, Lucinia, and Mirko Vagnoni. “Game of Thrones: The Chess Set of Charlemagne in Context.” In Meanings and Functions of the Ruler’s Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries), edited by Michele Bacci and Manuela Studer-Karlen, 329–64. Brill, 2022. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv2gjx0cn.15.

 

Wilkinson, Charles K. “Chessmen and Chess.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 9 (1943): 271–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/3257111.