Insert page The Columns and Coffered Ceiling in the Taihe Hall
Insert page The Columns and Coffered Ceiling in the Taihe Hall
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The 32nd insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the columns and coffered ceiling (zaojing 藻井) in the northeast corner of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.
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 Pillars and Coffers in the North-Eastern Corner of the the T'ai-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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