The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled A man and his dog

A man and his dog stop to rest in the foreground

beside a table bearing lighted candles

Brooklyn Bridge

originally developed in Ancient Egypt

The Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?) Finish:Rolled A man and his dogThe Lewis Chessmen, (Norwegian?), c1150 c1200, (c1920). Nine ivory chess pieces from a collection of ninety three found at Uig on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns in the shape of obelisks. A board large enough to hold all the pieces would have measured 82