Special 150 Ancient Chinese Painting 〝Children Playing Games on a Winter Day〞 Postage Stamps & Souvenir Sheet (1979)
| Stamp SN | D150 |
| Stamp Name | Special 150 Ancient Chinese Painting 〝Children Playing Games on a Winter Day〞 Postage Stamps & Souvenir Sheet (1979) |
| Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
| Stamp Cat | Mammals, Flowers, Calligraphy & Paintings |
| Issue date | 1979-03-08 |
| Suspersion date | |
| Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
| Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
| Printer | China Color Printing Co. Inc., R.O.C. |
| Drawer | |
| Designer | |
| Photographer | Huang Po-hsiung |
| Engraver | |
| Creative Director | |
| Sheet composition | |
| Print color | |
| Process | Deep etch offset |
| Paper | Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp paper with gum |
| Back | |
| Perforation | 郵票 13 1/2 小全張 無齒 |
Description
This set features the painting 〝Children Playing Games on a Winter Day〞 by a Sung artist, Sung Dynasty (960-1279), recommended by the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The four NT$5.00 stamps are arranged in a block of four, which depicts the entire painting. The souvenir sheet (102 × 146 mm.) consists of the four stamps, also in a block.
The painting is a wallscroll, 195.6 × 106.7 cm in size, with colour and ink on silk. It shows two children playing with a palm civet, next to a grove of plum blossoms, camelias and bamboo.