Name: TAKAKO SAITO (B. 1929)
Brand: Smell Chess Set
Price: 1200.00 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

TAKAKO SAITO (B. 1929)
Smell Chess Set
32 pieces in blonde and dark wood with cork stoppers, each piece containing spices, with original blonde wood box and inlaid chess board lid
12¹⁄₂ x 12¹⁄₂ x 2³⁄₄in. (31.8 x 31.8 x 7cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number nine of an edition of nine

Private Collection, London.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 18 September 2019, lot 7.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

32 Pieces: The Art of Chess, exh. cat., Iceland, Reykjavik Art Museum 2006 (illustrated p. 27).
D. McClain, Masterworks: Rare and Beautiful Chess Sets, Murray & Sorrell FUEL Ltd., London 2016, p. 194 (illustrated p. 200).
A. Motard, E. Schmidt and J. Stahl, Takako Saito: Dreams to Do, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany 2018-2019, p. 28-51 (illustrated p. 47).

London, Somerset House, The Art of Chess, 2003 (illustrated p. 35).

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