Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
Cleveland Museum of Art

Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess

1325–50

ivory
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Chess was a wildly popular pastime among the nobility, and was also an important element in medieval romantic literature. Who do you think is winning this game?

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