Insert page Colour Schemes of the Elements Supporting the Eaves
Insert page Colour Schemes of the Elements Supporting the Eaves
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The 69th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the elements supporting the eaves in the Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian 中和殿), the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohedian 保和殿) and 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, 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 MOCHI-OKURI. A Bracket of the Chung-hê Hall, Fig. (A), COLOURING. THE MOCHI-OKURI. A Bracket of the Pao-hê Hall, Fig. (B), COLOURING. THE MOCHI-OKURI. A Bracket of the T'ai-hê Hall, Fig. (C)
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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