Elena Napoleone

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Artisanal chessboard with a marble top and a wooden cabinet underneath. This is a vintage game set with a solid wood base featuring a drawer for the pieces, an inlaid marble playing surface, and hand-carved chess pieces in ivory and petrol blue tones. The playing surface and the figurines are made of real natural stone (alabaster and marble handcrafted), produced in Italy. The wooden cabinet has a drawer with a gilded brass knob to store all the chessmen in their respective recesses. Additionally, the chessboard also comes with pawns made of the same material as the chessmen to allow playing checkers as well. Highly regarded as an antique decorative object or a display piece.

The chessboard measures:
35 cm per side
Height 11 cm
The chess pieces range in height from 4 cm to 6 cm

Scacchiera artigianale con piano in marmo e mobile sottostante in legno. Si tratta di un set da gioco vintage con base in legno massello dotato di cassetto portapezzi, piano intarsiato in marmo e scacchi intagliati a mano in tonalità avorio e blu petrolio. La superficie di gioco e le statuette sono realizzate in vera pietra naturale (alabastro e marmo lavorato artigianalmente), prodotta in Italia. Il mobile in legno è munito di un cassetto con pomello in ottone dorato per depositare tutti gli scacchi ognuno nel proprio incavo. Inoltre la scacchiera è munita anche di pedine dello stesso materiale degli scacchi per avere la possibilità di giocare anche al gioco della dama. Molto apprezzata come oggetto d'arredo d'epoca o soprammobile di antiquariato.


La scacchiera misura:
35 cm x Lato
Altezza cm 11
Gli scacchi misurano in altezza da 4 cm a 6 cm 

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1950-1960 - Good

Italy

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Artisan chessboard with a marble playing surface and a solid wood base with a drawer, dating to 1950–1960, in good condition, with hand‑carved ivory and petrol blue chess pieces and accompanying damí pieces made from the same material.

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Artisan chessboard with a marble playing surface and a solid wood base with a drawer, dating to 1950–1960, in good condition, with hand‑carved ivory and petrol blue chess pieces and accompanying damí pieces made from the same material.

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