Special 150 Ancient Chinese Painting 〝Children Playing Games on a Winter Day〞 Postage Stamps & Souvenir Sheet (1979) (D150)

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
Dimension of stamps(mm.) : 36x51
Printer : China Color Printing Co. Inc., R.O.C.
Process : Deep etch offset
Paper : Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp 
Perforation : 郵票　13 1/2 小全張　無齒
Photographer : Huang Po-hsiung

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.