Playing Card Deck
| Object Number: | 29-238-32 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Provenience: | China Chongqing |
| Period: | 19th Century |
| Date Made: | 1889 - 1893 |
| Early Date: | 1889 |
| Late Date: | 1893 |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Paper Ink |
| Technique: | Printed |
| Iconography: | Lucky Formula |
| Length: | 11.6 cm |
| Width: | 2.2 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from William Henry Wilkinson, 1903 |
| Other Number: | Wilkinson 32 - Collector Number 29-191-241.8 - Old Museum Number |
Description
Playing cards based on a lucky formula. Rectangular cards with rounded corners. Backs red. Faces with black and red Chinese characters at each end. They read: 福如東海壽比南山. Tacky yellow coating. Eight of each character plus eight jokers.
From Culin publication: "No. 32. - From Chungch'ing. The Wa-wa p'ai, or childrens cards. Eight cards each of the hieroglyphs, Fuk u tung hoi | shau pi nam shan, "Happiness, like the eastern sea, age more than the southern hills." The eight fuk and the eight shau are in red; the rest in black; one fuk has upon it a spray of flowers. Total, 64. Fig. 131."
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. 145, No. 32, Fig. 131 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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