A Carved Wooden Figural “Jan Žižka Chess Set of Large Size, Czech, Early/Mid 20th Century
one side stained black, the other side in varnished chestnut brown, kings as Medieval monarchs with beard and sceptre, queens with crowns and tresses, bishops as huntsmen with hat and gun, knights as horses’ heads, rooks as turrets, pawns as Medieval helmeted footsoliders, rooks carved with initials ‘J Z’ and motto: ‘NE DE JME SE’ (“Never Surrender”)
