File:Chessboard of Sigismund III Vasa.jpg

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Chessboard of Sigismund III Vasa   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Gdańsk)Unknown author
Title
Chessboard of Sigismund III Vasa
label QS:Len,"Chessboard of Sigismund III Vasa"
label QS:Lpl,"Szachownica Zygmunta III Wazy."
Date 1608
date QS:P571,+1608-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium amber and ivory, ebony, sepiolite and silver on wood
institution QS:P195,Q18820
Object history

1608: commissioned by Hieronim Wołowicz, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania
1608: given to Sigismund III Vasa by Hieronim Wołowicz
1918: purchased by Tadeusz Wierzejski, Lviv

1928: purchased by Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków
Notes

Made of 64 tiles of amber, ebony and ivory. Decorated with:

  1. inscriptions - OTII CAVSA – DOMINO SVO – SERVVS DEDICAT (the domain of leisure - to his lord - servant dedicate) and quotes from the Artis amatoriae liber III,
  2. cartouches with the coat of arms of Sigismund III and with the arms and monogram of the donor: H (ieronim) W (ołowicz) P (odskarbi) L (itewski) - Hieronim Wołowicz, Treasurer of Lithuania,
  3. figural reliefs - head of the Roman Emperor, nymph Scacchis on the waves of the Seria River (from a poem Scacchia Ludus written in Latin by Marcus Hieronymus Vida).
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Source/Photographer www.wawel.krakow.pl

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