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Games & Puzzles — Recreations & Pursuits - Philips Auctions Australia
Auction House:
| Philips Auctions Australia | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 15 |
| Lots with images: | 15 |
| Prices available: | 15 |
Category:
Games & Puzzles
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A Chinese lacquered games set, late 19th century, the folding box with external chess board fashioned from mother of pearl and lacquered checks and internally a gilt and lacquer backgammon board all complete with thirty two ivory chess figures. Height 9.5… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of Chinese carved ivory chess pieces and an antique Chinese lacquered games box, the set comprising twelve natural-coloured pieces and twelve red-stained (one pawn replaced with an associated chequer piece); the exterior of the games box with black… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Chinese papier mache lacquerware games box, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. rectangular with canted corners and a conforming low domed cover, with seven fitted boxes and twelve small trays, intricately decorated throughout with vegetal forms, animals… | *** |  |
| *** | A Indian ivory chess set, circa 1900, a delightful painted ivory set with Indian warrior pawns, and figures upon horseback, camels and caparisoned elephants, cased in the original silk lined box. Heights: 3.5 cm. to 7.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A carved and painted ivory chess set, circa 1860, containing a well carved full red and white chess set. Height 10 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A vintage cased Chinese mahjong set, 20th century complete with 144 bone and bamboo tiles, sticks and counters, instructions, in its original fitted case. Height 5.5 cm, length 32.5 cm, width 19.5 cm (case) | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese export timber cased Mahjong set, 1920s, retailed through Hamleys London, in a metal trimmed oak oriental cabinet with a sliding front and small drawers, with 144 tiles in bone and bamboo, extra tiles, sticks and counters, (apparently complete),… | *** |  |
| *** | A Chinese cased mahjong set, 20th century, the brass bounded box with twin handles set with carved bone and bamboo mahjong set. Height 17 cm. Length 24 cm. Width 17 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two miniature vintage ivory chess sets, mid 20th century, Oriental and Eastern travelling sets housed in hinged parquetry chess board boxes, height 6.5 cm, and smaller | *** |  |
| *** | An English pewter 'Armada' chess set, finely modelled as replicas of the principal figures of the 1588 campaign including Sir Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth I and Spain's Prince Philip II, with fighting ships from the English and Spanish fleets serving as… | *** |  |
| *** | A cased Chinese carved and tinted ivory chess set, late Qing, early 20th century, the complete set comprising twelve natural-coloured pieces and twelve red-stained, finely carved and pierced depicting traditional Chinese emperor, dignitary figures,… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Chinese export ivory cribbage board, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the rectangular board with a shaped end, exquisitely carved in relief with arabesques and chrysanthemum flowers, with three central panels comprising figural narratives in pavilion… | *** |  |
| *** | A set of Chinese mother-of-pearl Gaming Counters, late 19th/early 20th century, comprising ten rectangular counters, four shaped and decorated as fish, two elliptical counters, and two discs, all with finely incised decoration to both sides, the… | *** |  |
| *** | Four vintage ivory ornaments, probably chess pieces, mid 20th century, Brickwork towers with double doors and each with a figure in a window, height 8 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A sterling silver leather lined playing card box, 1899 London, with maker's mark, W.F.W for Wright & Davies, of plain form, with 'Patience' in relief to the piano hinged lid, initialled, to lower right, leather lined, leather base with plaster fill,… | *** |  |