A horse is a horse, of course, but how accurate are the depictions of horses seen in this chess piece from the AMAM collection? You can find out in this fascinating blog written by Barbara Drake Boehm, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Curator of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. The blog is a companion to their current exhibition, “The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis” on view now through April 22. The AMAM chess piece is currently on display in the museum’s East Gallery.  Image:English Chess Piece of a Knight, ca. 1120–40IvoryR. T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948.310

A horse is a horse, of course, but how accurate are the depictions of horses seen in this chess piece from the AMAM collection? You can find out in this fascinating blog written by Barbara Drake Boehm, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Curator of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. The blog is a companion to their current exhibition, “The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis” on view now through April 22. The AMAM chess piece is currently on display in the museum’s East Gallery. 

Image:
English 
Chess Piece of a Knight, ca. 1120–40
Ivory
R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948.310

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