Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Drawings & Prints The lid having a fruiting

The lid having a fruiting finial

The censer is finely decorated with a pair of dragons chasing a flaming pearl surrounded by cloud motifs

The card case from Vizagapatam

Such gold snuff bottles are exceedingly rare and were only made for the Imperial household and other high ranking officials of the Imperial court

His art was also reproduced for post cards copyrighted by R

Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Drawings & Prints The lid having a fruitingA very good large antique oil on canvas painting by the celebrated Spanish artist Maximo Juderias Caballero (1867 1951), Paris 1910. The painting depicting an interior scene of 17th Century French Royalist Cavaliers playing chess. Two of the Cavaliers are seated at a carved table playing chess in their extravagant outfits, lace collar ruffs and rapier swords, while a third is seated and seems to be asleep or intoxicated, possibly explaining the silver