Ivory piece showing a man and a woman play chess inside a tent
Date Description Source Reference
13th century? Probably a bell tent. Only the tent flaps and the pole are visible, however the tent flaps are held up by the same type of flap hooks to those shown in the Maciejowsky Bible. Far left. “ Ivory piece showing a man and a women playing a board game (chess ?) inside a tent, while being watch by a man (with a hawk) and a woman with a hoop in her hand.” Provenance unknown. Delort, R., Life in the Middle Ages, London, 1973, p. 211.

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A similar scene can be seen at: Guido de Columnis, ‘Historia destructionis Troiae’

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