Playing card. Painted image in the centre of multiple circular shapes with a square in the centre. There are at least three Chinese symbols painted above the image. At the edge of the card three bands with a circle on the end on a black background. A pink stripe has been painted down the centre. The reverse of the card is plain. One card from a pack of twenty-one playing cards 1966.1.892 .1

Collection type: Object
Description: Playing card. Painted image in the centre of multiple circular shapes with a square in the centre. There are at least three Chinese symbols painted above the image. At the edge of the card three bands with a circle on the end on a black background. A pink stripe has been painted down the centre. The reverse of the card is plain. One card from a pack of twenty-one playing cards 1966.1.892 .1 - .21. [ASh [OPS move] 27/06/2016]
Geographical reference: China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Person: Field collector E.J. Fitzroy; PRM source Ipswich Museum; PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1952
Date collected: By 1952
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes: Material Pigment, Material Paper Plant, Process Painted
Dimensions: Depth: max 1 mm, Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 94 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1966.1.892.13 Other numbers: 1952.202.18
Research and responses: Notes from George Pollard: An (incomplete, should be 30) example of Chinese money cards, the same family of cards as the four Thai "Kwan Pai" decks 1899.44.5-8.x. These cards bear the names of characters from the Chinese novel Water Margin, e.g. 1966.1.892.11 bears the name 代宗 Dai Zong. Having names on all the cards like this deck does is relatively rare, but the correspondence between card and name seems to be the same as that on a deck which appears in the catalogue of the (now defunct) Mahjong Museum in Japan. The design of the deck is different to this.

Search terms: Toy and Game, Card Game

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