# Chess Pieces

- By: Saar de Swart (Arnhem, 1861–1951)
- Date: 1923 - 1925
- Medium: cuprous oxide, bronze (metal)
- Classification: chess piece
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of het Otto van Noppen Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds en het Knecht-Drenth Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-2021-212--eb918643c6ded8bbdc99507b86ff0a88)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/bQhPj/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Sculptress Saar de Swart is known primarily as a patron of young Amsterdam artists around 1900. Within her own small oeuvre, these chess pieces constitute a special group. Together with the pawns – not shown here – they form a medieval court. Besides the king and queen, we see two clerics (the bishops), two knights (horses) and two sentries behind a battlement (rooks). The pieces were not actually meant to be used to play a game of chess.