Playing Card Deck
29-238-20
From: China | Longzhou
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-238-20 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | China | Longzhou |
| Period | 19th Century |
| Date Made | 1889 - 1893 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Paper | Ink |
| Technique | Printed |
| Iconography | Chess |
| Inscription Language | Chinese Language |
| Description | 70 rectangular playing cards based on Chinese Chess (象棋 xiangqi). Backs black. Faces printed in black or red. A Chinese character within a circle is repeated on each end with a either diamond shapes, Chinese characters or a human figure at center. From Culin publication: "No. 20. - From Swatow. Four each of the Tseung, Sz', Tseung, Ku, Ma, P'au in red, the same number in black, and ten each of the red and of black pawns, one black and one red kam, "gold" or joker. Total, 70. The pack comes from Lung-chou, near Hui-chou, some fifty miles from Swatow." |
| Length | 6.9 cm |
| Width | 1.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from William Henry Wilkinson, 1903 |
| Other Number | Wilkinson 20 - Collector Number | 29-191-242.5 - Old Museum Number |
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