Wood Marquetry Chess Set — Two-Tone Playing Field with Hand-Carved Camel Bone Pieces, Full Set

A complete chess set of refined simplicity and exceptional craft quality, pairing a wood marquetry board of elegant two-tone construction with a full complement of hand-carved camel bone chess pieces. The playing field presents alternating squares of warm golden wood and deep espresso walnut — a classic combination executed with the precision of a cabinet maker, each square perfectly aligned and consistently sized across the full grid. The border is a generous band of micro-mosaic marquetry in camel bone and dark wood, presenting concentric guards of diamond lattice, triangle devices, and geometric banding that frame the playing field with quiet authority. The tray-form board has raised sides, allowing pieces to be stored within when not in play.

The chess pieces are hand-carved in camel bone in two distinct tones — one set in natural ivory white, the other in a warmer patinated bone — each piece individually carved with figurative detail: knights as rearing horses, bishops and rooks with distinctive architectural silhouettes, pawns with fluted bases and turned shafts. The carving is assured and consistent across all thirty-two pieces, the figural elements simplified to their most essential forms without losing their character.

A complete set of this quality — board and pieces in matching craft tradition — is both a playing set and a display object, suited to a library shelf, a study coffee table, or a collector's cabinet where it can be admired as readily as it is played.

Dimensions: Width: 40 cm Depth: 40 cm Height: 3.5 cm
Full set — 32 hand-carved camel bone chess pieces included.
Each piece is unique and handmade to order.
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