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Designed by Dali at the request of his friend Marcel Duchamp in 1964 for the American Chess Federation. All of the pieces were modeled after Dali’s fingers except the Queens which used one of Dali’s wife’s fingers crowned with a tooth and the rooks which were modeled after the salt cellars. Of the thirty two pieces sixteen are sterling silver and sixteen are silver gilt.

Salvador Dali Set

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