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 |
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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 |
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.