Photography Emperor’s Arch Pailou by the Tombs of the Ming Dinasty
Photography Emperor’s Arch Pailou by the Tombs of the Ming Dinasty
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A black-and-white photograph showing the five-part stone memorial triumphal arch (pailou 牌樓) in the Ming Dynasty Tombs in Beijing (Ming Shisan Ling 明十三陵).
The photograph is the 370th 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 Kaiser-Pailou bei den Ming-Gräbern. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 12,2 cm, width: 8.4 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: bluish discolouration of black colour
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