Check and checkmate!

This extra-large candle depicting the king in a chess set will burn approximately 12 hours. Each piece comes in a wooden gift box. The shop also has a chess piece depicting the queen.

In the 18th century most chess games were won by check and checkmate. In 1736 the 10-year-old composer François-André Danican Philidor went down in chess history when he defeated the champion at Versailles in front of Louis XV. Later he did a singular analysis of chess playing in which he found that pawns have a strategic importance nobody had ever thought of before.

Materials : Wax, wood
Dimensions : h33 cm