Gaming Piece, 9th–10th century, Attributed to Eastern Islamic lands, Glass; cut, tooled, and polished, H. 11/16 in. ( cm

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Gaming Piece, 9th–10th century, Attributed to Eastern Islamic lands, Glass; cut, tooled, and polished, H. 11/16 in. ( cm), Gaming pieces, Caliphal decrees prohibited the playing of chess (the pieces of which are customarily figural) for iconoclastic reasons as early as the eighth century. It is likely that chess pieces of the abstract type, such as those exhibited here, replaced the figural ones in order to circumvent those decrees

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