Insert page Colour Schemes of Eaves, Floors, and Terraces
Insert page Colour Schemes of Eaves, Floors, and Terraces
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The 75th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns of eaves, floors, and terraces at the Zhaode Gate (Zhaodemen 伟得門) and other buildings in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.
Workshop / factory / publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa, College of Engineering, Imperial University of Tokyo
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: coloured print
Dimensions: length: 48.2 cm, height: 36.4 cm
Inscription: COLOURING. THE GABLE DECORATION ; PAVEMENT & PLATFORM, &C. The Gable Decoration in the Chao-tê Gate, Fig. (A), COLOURING. THE GABLE DECORATION ; PAVEMENT & PLATFORM, &C. Figs. (B) - (J)
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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