Stamp SN | D166 |
Stamp Name | Special 166 Chiu Ying’s Landscape Painting Postage Stamps & Souvenir Sheet |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Calligraphy & Paintings |
Issue date | 1980-11-12 |
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 | S166.1-166.4 10×4 |
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 depicts a landscape painting by Chiu Ying, an artist of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). The painting is 133.4 × 155.4 cm. in size, with color and ink on silk, and was recommended by the National Palace Museum, Taipei. The four 5.00 stamps of this set are arranged in a se`tenant block, which features the whole painting. The souvenir sheet (102 × 146 mm.)consists of the said four stamps, also in a block.
Chiu Ying (15th to 16th century) was a native of T'ai-ts'ang in Kiangsu province, but later moved to Soochow. His style name was Shih-fu, and his nickname Shih-chow. Details about his early life are not clearly known to us. His genius was first recognized by Chou Ch'en, a contemporary artist, from whom he had received his first lessons in art. His talents were many-sided. He was famed for his delicated brushwork, but was also capable of producing fine landscapes and figures using bold strokes in a free style. There were certain types of painting with which Chiu Ying was thoroughly conversant, the technique of which was even beyond the reach of his most prominent contemporaries.