Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1644-1911
Materials:paper
Technique:
Dimensions:Length: 6 centimetres
Description:
Playing card (in pack). Learchur variety. Made of paper. Depictions of Chinese coins and strings of Chinese coins.
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![图片[1]-playing-card BM-1896-0501.907.a-al-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00275226_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-playing-card BM-1896-0501.907.a-al-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00275227_001.jpg)
Comments:From Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber by British Museum. Dept. of prints and drawings; O’Donoghue, Freeman M. (Freeman Marius), 1901, pp.184-185: “Chinese – Collection of modern packs acquired by the testator from Mr. W.H. Wilkinson of H.M. Consular Service, who has kindly furnished the following information: ‘The packs contained in this collection were procured during the year 1889-90 from Canton[Guangdong], Swatow [Shantou], and Foochow [Fuzhou] in South China, from Ningbo and Shanghai on the central sea-board, from Peking [Beijing] in the north, from Kiukiang [Jiujiang] and Yichang in mid-China, and from Chungking [Chongqing] in the far west….”” In this publication he refers to them as learchur (lieh chih), and in another publication, (Chinese Origin of Playing Cards, American Anthropologist, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1895), pp. 61-78, https://www.jstor.org/stable/65844 ) he refers to lieh chih, literally “waste paper”, as a kind of card-game.
Materials:paper
Technique:
Dimensions:Length: 6 centimetres
Description:
Playing card (in pack). Learchur variety. Made of paper. Depictions of Chinese coins and strings of Chinese coins.
IMG
Comments:From Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber by British Museum. Dept. of prints and drawings; O’Donoghue, Freeman M. (Freeman Marius), 1901, pp.184-185: “Chinese – Collection of modern packs acquired by the testator from Mr. W.H. Wilkinson of H.M. Consular Service, who has kindly furnished the following information: ‘The packs contained in this collection were procured during the year 1889-90 from Canton[Guangdong], Swatow [Shantou], and Foochow [Fuzhou] in South China, from Ningbo and Shanghai on the central sea-board, from Peking [Beijing] in the north, from Kiukiang [Jiujiang] and Yichang in mid-China, and from Chungking [Chongqing] in the far west….”” In this publication he refers to them as learchur (lieh chih), and in another publication, (Chinese Origin of Playing Cards, American Anthropologist, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1895), pp. 61-78, https://www.jstor.org/stable/65844 ) he refers to lieh chih, literally “waste paper”, as a kind of card-game.
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