Antique Handmade Bone Dice with Wooden Dice Cup antique flowers painting crackers or other small treats

crackers or other small treats

signed (incised) PAT on the underside

I think probably safest not for food use (but if not for plants

with just a thin painted black line distinguishing it from the red of his face

became popular in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Antique Handmade Bone Dice with Wooden Dice Cup antique flowers painting crackers or other small treatsAs with handmade bone dominoes, I think I'll never get over the beauty of antique bone dice, the more off square, and the more irregularly placed the dots, the better. I found all of these together, inside of this dice cup, which is turned wood with a a sort of red waxed paper rolled around it. There were a few tiny glass ones too, not pictured here, but which I'll include as a bonus. Cup measures 3" tall x 1 9 16" in diameter. Dice measure between 3