A Good South German Pearwood “Toy” Chess Set, circa 1800
one side in a lighter coloured wood, the chessmen with painted “eyes”, kings with multi-pierced knops, queens similar but of smaller size and with urn finials, bishops with feathered tri-corn caps, knights as arched horse’s heads, rooks as raised turrets with brickwork and pierced domes, pawns with urn finials
