Noguchi Chess Set Jewelry Originally fitted with a long

Originally fitted with a long rubber cable for easy transportation and a loop at the top for hanging on ships decks or stable doors

Chess set and board sold separately

Steel Storage Box with flat lid

Hatsukaichi City

gold or silver finished aluminum frame

Noguchi Chess Set Jewelry Originally fitted with a longOf the many chess set designs made by major 20th century Modern artists few were both as innovative and deeply rooted in tradition as the Chess Set and Table ensemble created by Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi for the 1944 Imagery of Chess exhibition at Julien Levy Gallery in New York, organized by Levy and artists Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. The wartime scarcity of quality materials both limited and inspired Noguchi. In his chess set