Chinese Chess Board
Chinese Chess Pieces
16434
From: Johore | Malay Peninsula
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 16434 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Johore | Malay Peninsula |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Pigment |
Description | Chinese chessboard with 32 men attached. Papan dasn. Rectangular board, checkers attached to it. Each of the narrow ends has 9 checkers lining it, a third of the way and two thirds of the way across is a row with five in each and in between the two rows on each side closer to the second row is a row with two in it spaced opposite the second one at the border edge and opposite the space between the first and second on the inner row. Painted red. Indented lines on the board. Rectangles and diagonals on the checkers. |
Height | 4 cm |
Length | 48 cm |
Width | 32 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from the Sultan of Johore (through his agent Rounsevelle Wildman), 1893 |
Other Number | 9 - Other Number |
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