Photography Detail of the Entrance Gate at the Tai Temple
Photography Detail of the Entrance Gate at the Tai Temple
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A black-and-white photograph showing the decoration at the entrance of the Ancestral Temple (Taimiao 太廟) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. It was dedicated to the worship of the imperial ancestors.
The photograph is the 284th 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 asDetail des Tores (Nr. 281) . (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 11.5 cm, width: 8.3 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, trimmed left- and right-hand edges
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