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by nebulousflynn in cultural-heritage-history
"A queen from the Lewis chessmen" (https://skfb.ly/66Gty) by The British Museum is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). I used [rapidcompact.com](http://rapidcompact.com) optimize this excellent 3D scan, choosing default settings and a 3mb target filesize. Object info > Chess-piece; walrus ivory; queen wearing floriated crown, veil, mantle and tunic; right hand placed on cheek; seated in chair ornamented on back with adjacent leaf scrolls; cloth hanging over top of back of chair. > 1150-1175 (circa) > Height: 94 millimetres Width: 40.71 millimetres Depth: 30.48 millimetres > COL: [MCM865]>(http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_obect_details.aspx?partId=1&objectId=408) > Read more on the [British Museum Blog](http://british.museumblog.org/check-it-out-the-lewis-chessmen-at-the-british-museum/) > 115 photographs taken by Emma Palmer, Daniel Pett, Naomi Speakman and Lucy Ellis (a group training exercise.)