(above) from “Do You Know This?” House & Garden. June 1944. p.72.

By early 1943 Janeway was producing ceramic chess sets of her own design using slipcasting. They were monochrome, black and white. Georg Jensen Inc offered these sets and also at least one Janeway tiled chessboard.

Janeway monochrome chessmen offered by Georg Jensen Inc. in 1944 brochure,  Presenting Carol Janeway’s Ceramics. 

(Courtesy of Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington. 1960.1.1.)

The Mary Hill Museum of Art owns a complete monochrome Janeway chess set (blue vs white), pre-1947, acquired in 1960 and now part of the George E. Muehleck, Jr. Gallery of International Chess Sets. Janeway signed one piece, the White Queen, a powerful piece with which she identified.

https://www.maryhillmuseum.org/maryhill-chess/

Janeway was one of 32 avant-garde artists, one of 2 women, who exhibited their chess sets in Julien Levy Gallery’s surrealist-oriented “Imagery of Chess” of December 1944.  That Janeway set would have been monochrome, black versus white.

(above) Janeway’s polychrome sample chesspieces from her estate were arranged on modern chessboard as part of the 2005 exhibition curated by Larry List:  The Imagery of Chess Revisited. (actual pieces are in Philadelphia Museum of Art; ex coll. Young-Mallin Archive;  Carol Janeway Collection)

In December 2022, the British Chess Magazine published Celia Rabinovitch’s  interview with Victoria Jenssen about Janeway chess sets : The White Queen of New York.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:23bdcbb7-7f26-3146-8d3a-a8701ecc8952