Nuremberg, ca 1570
Bronze, gilt
10,0 cm
Inv.-Nr. 28/58
Acquired in 1928 and given by Dr. Karl-Hanss und Uta Kaltschmid, Stuttgart, 1987
Gallery 90
The extraordinarily fine workmanship distinguishing this handsome chessman suggests that it was made by either a goldsmith or a medallist. Representations of lansquenets or pikemen as pawns were widespread in mid-16th-century Germany.