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Tessellated Vintage Dice or Die Lidded Cube Box Paperweight Desk Accessory

About the Item

Are you feeling lucky? Then roll this die. Luck be a lady tonight. This beautifully crafted tessellated dyed bone lidded box perfectly emulates the titillation of rolling the dice, taking those chances and reaping those rewards. The stylized die / dice is ready to hold your winnings, your stash, your secrets. Very much in the style of Maitland-Smith, this fantastically crafted lidded box is sturdy and handsome. Measuring four inches cubed, the scale of this lidded box will perfectly compliment any decor, desktop or bookshelf. Want to know just what inspired this object? Well Britannica has this to say about dice, "Dice and their forerunners are the oldest gaming implements known to man. Sophocles reported that dice were invented by the legendary Greek Palamedes during the siege of Troy, whereas Herodotus maintained that they were invented by the Lydians in the days of King Atys. Both “inventions” have been discredited by numerous archaeological finds demonstrating that dice were used in many earlier societies. The precursors of dice were magical devices that primitive people used for the casting of lots to divine the future. The probable immediate forerunners of dice were knucklebones (astragals: the anklebones of sheep, buffalo, or other animals), sometimes with markings on the four faces. Such objects are still used in some parts of the world. In later Greek and Roman times, most dice were made of bone and ivory; others were of bronze, agate, rock crystal, onyx, jet, alabaster, marble, amber, porcelain, and other materials. Cubical dice with markings practically equivalent to those of modern dice have been found in Chinese excavations from 600 BCE and in Egyptian tombs dating from 2000 BCE. The first written records of dice are found in the ancient Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, composed in India more than 2,000 years ago. Pyramidal dice (with four sides) are as old as cubical ones; such dice were found with the so-called Royal Game of Ur, one of the oldest complete board games ever discovered, dating back to Sumer in the 3rd millennium BCE. Another variation of dice is teetotums (a type of spinning top). It was not until the 16th century that dice games were subjected to mathematical analysis—by Italians Girolamo Cardano and Galileo, among others—and the concepts of randomness and probability were conceived (see probability and statistics). Until then the prevalent attitude had been that dice and similar objects fell the way they did because of the indirect action of gods or supernatural forces." I wouldn't recommend leaving this box to chance. Get it now and make it yours.

Similar to:

Maitland Smith (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 4 in (10.16 cm)Width: 4 in (10.16 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Bone,Wood

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

Late 20th Century