Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Drawings & Prints This work was acquired from

This work was acquired from the Portland Art museum in 2008

The casket is based on a design from Al Jazari's "Book of Knowledge"

25" wide X 15

mostly used for light often as a nighttime chamberstick

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Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Drawings & Prints This work was acquired fromA very good large antique oil on canvas painting by the celebrated Spanish artist Maximo Juderias Caballero (1867 1951), Paris 1910. The painting depicting an interior scene of 17th Century French Royalist Cavaliers playing chess. Two of the Cavaliers are seated at a carved table playing chess in their extravagant outfits, lace collar ruffs and rapier swords, while a third is seated and seems to be asleep or intoxicated, possibly explaining the silver