Handmade ceramic chess set with storage box. Stylized Lewis chessmen

The size of the board is 45*45cm. Under the playing board there is a box for storing pieces. The size of the figurines is from 5 to 7 cm.
Handmade-Modeling (each figure is molded by the master by hand). Material – Natural Clay. Firing-(1100gr); milking – (after high-temperature roasting, baking the product previously bathed in milk).
Board for CHESS – handmade. Material: veneer – Oak, Beech on a plywood frame. Coated with a thin layer of beeswax paste.
Chess is a wonderful gift for a respectable person, a boss, a man of respectable age or a great lover of this game. Such chess can be exhibited as an interior decoration, which does not interfere with its intended use, the historical appearance of the pieces and the board is pleasing to the eye, which makes the pastime even more enjoyable.
BRIEF HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In April 1831, one of the inhabitants of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides archipelago found a small cave covered with sand on the coast of the island. In it, he dug up a treasure, consisting of several dozen chess pieces from a walrus tusk and a whale’s tooth. It is not clear how many there were originally, but until recently 93 pieces were known: kings, queens, bishops (that is, chess bishops), knights (horses), guards (rooks) and pawns. The hoard also included checkers for playing backgammon and a belt buckle. It is assumed that chess was made in the Norwegian city of Trondheim in the second half of the 12th century. The game of chess was well known to the Scandinavians of that time, and the city of Trondheim was famous for its walrus tusk carvers. The Outer Hebrides were then part of the Kingdom of Norway, and the Isle of Lewis served as an intermediate point on the trade route linking Trondheim and Dublin. In a poem of the 13th century, the ruler of the island, Angus Mor Isley, is mentioned, who inherited, among other things, a set of chess pieces. It is believed that for unknown reasons the chess was buried on the Isle of Lewis by a trader who was taking it to Ireland for sale. Now eleven figures are in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and the rest belong to the British Museum in London.
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