Bibi or Queen Playing Card for the Game of Nas
mid-19th century
Maker Unknown
Arts of the Islamic World
The full set of cards for the game of nas contains twenty cards, with four each of five suits. The suits are the king, the queen, the couli, or dancer, the serbaz, or soldier, and the as, or ace, in the form of a lion and tiger entwined by a snake-dragon.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Recreation, Toys, Games
- Formatted Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on wood or papiermâché under lacquered varnish
- Medium
- ink, opaque, watercolor, gold, wood, papiermâché, under, lacquered, varnish
- Period
- Qajar Period
- Dimensions
- 2 3/8 x 1 9/16 in. (6.0 x 4.0 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Accession Number
- X274h
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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