Insert page Colour Schemes of Door
Insert page Colour Schemes of Door
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The 67th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the door panels in the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿), the Hall of Heavenly Purity (Qianqinggong 乾清宮), and the Hall of the Union of Heaven and Earth (Jiaotaidian 交秦殿) 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 GATE AND HALL DOORS. A Door of the T'ai-hê Hall, Fig. (G), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. A Door of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Hall, Fig. (H), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. A Door of the Chiao-t'ai Hall, Fig. (I)
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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