Playing Card Deck
| Object Number: | 29-238-20 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Provenience: | China Longzhou |
| Period: | 19th Century |
| Date Made: | 1889 - 1893 |
| Early Date: | 1889 |
| Late Date: | 1893 |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Paper Ink |
| Technique: | Printed |
| Iconography: | Chess |
| Inscription Language: | Chinese Language |
| 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 |
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."
Bibliography:
| [Book] Culin, Robert S. 1895. Korean Games, with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pg. 144, No. 20 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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