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game pieces; chess board
30 Chinese chessmen (Xiangqi), red versus blue. Round, turned ivory disks marked with engraved Chinese characters: 1 general (jiang), 1 marshal (shuai), 4 counsellors (shi), 2 elephants (xiang), 1 minister (xiang), 3 horses (ma), 4 chariots (pronounced 'ju' or 'che'), 2 cannons (pao), 2 catapults (pao), 10 soldiers (consisting of 6 'zu' and 4 'bing'); either filled with blue paste within red circl…
Type of item
- chess boards
- game pieces
Type of item
- chess boards
- game pieces
Providing institution
Aggregator
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Provenance
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
Identifier
- http://collections.horniman.ac.uk/objects/134113
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-11-18T11:06:17.606Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:52:26.986Z