Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind -- Traditional Chinese Puzzles from the Yi Zhi Tang Collection
Language: English
Published by Art Media Resources, 2008
- Softcover
- New
Condition: New
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In only a dozen years, Chinese-born collector Wei Zhang and her husband Peter Rasmussen have acquired a diverse and well-documented collection of 1200 antique Chinese puzzles, only a few of which are familiar to western collectors. The puzzles include tangram sets, wire puzzles, puzzle locks, puzzle rings and bracelets, sliding block puzzles, puzzling images of the four happiness boys, puzzle vessels, and more.Now a broad selection of these puzzles is presented in this beautifully illustrated 80-page book. The book is divided into ten sections, each focusing on a particular type of puzzle. Each section contains a short history of the puzzle (in English and Chinese), photographs of representative puzzles, and additional images of them in old Chinese prints, books and photographs. The oldest item included is from the Ming dynasty a brass paperweight made in the form of four boys sharing two heads. The chapters on puzzle locks and puzzle vessels demonstrate how these ingenious creations work.…
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- Title
- Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind -- Traditional Chinese Puzzles from the Yi Zhi Tang Collection
- Author
- Zhang, Wei; Peter Rasmussen
- Publisher
- Art Media Resources
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1588861015
- ISBN 13
- 9781588861016
Peter Rasmussen have acquired a diverse and well-documented collection
of 1200 antique Chinese puzzles, only a few of which are familiar to
western collectors. The puzzles include tangram sets, wire puzzles,
puzzle locks, puzzle rings and bracelets, sliding block puzzles,
puzzling images of the four happiness boys, puzzle vessels, and more.
Now a broad selection of these puzzles is presented in this beautifully
illustrated 80-page book. The book is divided into ten sections, each
focusing on a particular type of puzzle. Each section contains a short
history of the puzzle (in English and Chinese), photographs of
representative puzzles, and additional images of them in old Chinese
prints, books and photographs. The oldest item included is from the
Ming dynasty a brass paperweight made in the form of four boys sharing
two heads. The chapters on puzzle locks and puzzle vessels demonstrate
how these ingenious creations work.
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Review
diverse collection of old Chinese puzzles. However collectors of fine
Chinese antiques will also see them for the rare Chinese porcelains,
carved ivories, and exquisitely crafted folk articles that are also
present. This exquisite book demonstrates Zhang and Rasmussen's love
and passion for this fascinating, but relatively unknown, art form.
--Norman L. Sandfield, author of The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography
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