Chessmen (32)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The pawns, human male heads wearing turbans, have red and green forehead marks to match their bases. All the pieces are figural, and the arrangement—the king and minister being male half-figures, the bishop a camel, the knight a horse, and the rook an elephant—is exceedingly common in Indian chess.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art