Game Piece
Top Die
21282
From: Austria | Vienna
Curatorial Section: Historic
| Object Number | 21282 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Austrian |
| Provenience | Austria | Vienna |
| Period | Modern | Late 19Th Century |
| Date Made | 1898 |
| Section | Historic |
| Materials | Bone (uncertain) | Wood |
| Iconography | Peasant Girl |
| Description | A ten-sided prismatic top-die with longitudinal pin, having nine sides with black spots from 1 to 9, arranged so that the sum of the opposite faces from 1 to 8 equals nine. Opposite the nine is the figure of a peasant girl - Marianne = Mariandle, who counts double. Made in Vienna, largely for export. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1898 |
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