Knight Chess Piece

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 11 September 2025

Knight Chess Piece — Knight chess piece, carving made of jet from western Islamic lands, c. 8th to c. 10th century.

Craftspeople may have skirted prohibitions to playing chess for iconoclastic reasons by developing more abstract pieces, as depicted here, and away from figural ones.

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