Insert page Colour Schemes of Façade and Door
Insert page Colour Schemes of Façade and Door
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The 65th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing . It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the wall façades and door panels of the buildings in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The left-hand side of the sheet shows the colour schemes of the patterns on the façade walls of the Gate of Heavenly Purity (Qianqingmen 乾清門), and on the right are the colour schemes of the patterns on the metal door fittings of the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohedian 保和殿), the Hall of the Union of Heaven and Earth (Jiaotaidian 交秦殿), and the Hall of Spiritual Cultivation (Yangxindian 養心殿).
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 FACE OF THE WALL. Figs. (33) and (53), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. The Hassō-kanamono of the Doors of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (A), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. The Metal Fittings of the Door of the Po-hê Hall, Fig. (B), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. The Metal Fittings of the Door of the Chiao-t'ai Hall, Fig. (C), COLOURING. THE GATE AND HALL DOORS. The Metal Fittings of the Door of the Yang-hsin Hall, Fig. (D)
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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