Vizagapatam Export Chess Set, circa 1840 fox-hunting game The resulting ceremony successfully reflected

The resulting ceremony successfully reflected the supposed "antiquity" of the event

knights as horsemen

The Prince of Wales' feathers motto (Ich Dien) is indented in gilt (rather than painted) to the chair back

knights with ‘spiked helmets’

Vizagapatam Export Chess Set, circa 1840 fox-hunting game The resulting ceremony successfully reflectedAn Anglo Indian Export ivory Chess Set, Vizagapatam, circa 1840 one side stained red, the other side left natural, kings with foliate decoration and pieced tops surmounted with crosses, queens with floral tops, bishops as mitres, knights as horses heads, rooks as raised turrets with flags King: 14. 2cm high Pawn: 5. 4cm high Stock Reference: ALB 1672