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Culture:English and Chinese
Title:game: loo basket
Date Made:19th century
Type:Recreational Gear
Materials:textile: silk, thread; mother-of-pearl
Place Made:United Kingdom; England and China
Accession Number:  HD 71.116
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of two loo baskets with mother-of-pearl gaming counters. The baskets, made of thread woven over pins, have 3 embroidered playing cards on satin on the bottom of each basket. Mother-of-pearl shell was principally imported into China from the Persian Gulf, the Indian coast, and islands in the archipelago and the Phillipines. It was used mostly in China for gaming counters, boxes, buttons, other small items, and extensively for furniture inlay for both Chinese and China Trade pieces; its was also shipped to the west in bulk for button making and other decorative uses.

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games

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