STAMP ISSUE “CHINESE FURNITURE”

Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau will issue the stamp theme “Chinese Furniture” on 10^th November, 2017. Chinese furniture has developed and reached its peak during the Ming and Qing Dynasties: sophisticated craftsmanship, rigorous structure with great varieties. Also, the decorative techniques: inlay, embedment, carving, engraving and painting, have accomplished an exquisite standard; they complement the overall beauty of furniture, and serve as the icing on the cake.

This issue includes a set of four stamps and one souvenir sheet. The stamps illustrate four rare treasures of Chinese furniture including: the yellow rosewood painting desk with carving of waves and dragon pattern; the Tai-Shi chair in zitan wood with cloisonné (enamel) inlay; the rosewood armchairs with mother-of-pearl inlay and craved with dragon and phoenix; the gold painted zitan screen with embedded jade and carving of dragon and cloud. The stamp illustrates on the souvenir sheet is the rosewood canopy bed, the embedded colourful luminescent mother-of-pearl (The Eight Immortals) carving on the front of this bed as the pattern showed around the souvenir sheet, its embedding technique was superb, the portraits of those characters were vivid and life-like.

The above issue will be available for sale at the General Post Office and the Communications Museum, from 9:00a.m. to 5:30p.m., the “Rua do Campo” Post Office, from 9:00a.m. to 7:00p.m., the Maritime Ferry Terminal Post Office and the Airport Post Office, from 10:00a.m. to 7:00p.m. The mail service for the relative philatelic products cancelled with the commemorative postmark will be available on the issue date at the above locations. The philatelic products are as follows:

Philatelic Products	Selling Price	Quantity
Set of 4 Stamps	15.00 patacas	300,000
Sheetlet	60.00 patacas
Souvenir Sheet	12.00 patacas	300,000
First Day Cover with Stamps	20.00 patacas	5,500
First Day Cover with Souvenir Sheet	17.00 patacas	5,500
Information Brochure	6.50 patacas	9,500
Information Brochure with Stamps	21.50 patacas
Information Brochure with Souvenir Sheet	18.50 patacas

The composition of this issue is designed by Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and the text of the information brochure is written by the Hua Xia International (Macau) Art Exhibition Center Limited.

This is the tenth theme in 2017. The previous issued stamps are “Lunar Year of the Rooster” on 05/01/2017, “Macao: Back to Common Roots” on 10/02/2017, “Traditional Chinese Culture” on 01/03/2017, the label stamp “Lunar Year of the Rooster” on 17/05/2017, “Chinese Opera – Farewell My Concubine” on 08/06/2017, “Social Welfare Services of Macao” on 03/07/2017, “90^th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army” on 01/08/2017, “Tung Sin Tong – 125 Years of Society Solidarity” on 08/08/2017, “150^th Anniversary of the Birth of Camilo Pessanha” on 07/09/2017, and “Lotus Flower” on 09/10/2017.

Technical Data of Stamp "CHINESE FURNITURE"

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