A Good English "Washington Pattern" Ivory Chess Set, circa 1780
one side stained red, the other side left natural, kings and queens with multi-knopped central sections, kings with cogged finials, queens with ball finials, bishops with open mitres, knights as arched horses' heads, rooks as raised "double stacked" turrets with red and white brickwork and scalloped battlements, pawns with wide bases (3.5cm in diameter) in a 19th century mahogany box with a interior lining in blue velvet
