Photography Moderen Arch Pailou in the New Walls of the Forbidden City
Photography Moderen Arch Pailou in the New Walls of the Forbidden City
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A black-and-white photograph showing the modern triumphal arch (pailou 牌樓) in the new wall of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城). The old wall was demolished in 1915.
The photograph is the 448th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Modernes Tor in der neuen Mauer der Verb. Stadt. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.7 cm, width: 8.5 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: blue discolouration of black colour
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