Insert page Staircase in the Baohe Hall
Insert page Staircase in the Baohe Hall
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The 49th insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photograph shows the decoration of the lower level of the central part of the rear staircase of the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohedian 保和殿) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The central part was exclusively for the use of the emperor.
Workshop / factory / publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa, Tokyo Imperial Museum
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white print
Dimensions: length: 48.2 cm, height: 36.4 cm
Inscription: The Lower Part of the Central Back Flight of the Pao-hê Hall.
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Last acquisition method: donation
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase – Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
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