Painting Capturing of a suspect
Painting Capturing of a suspect
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The fifth picture from an album of Chinese paintings of torture, trials, and executions from the Qing Dynasty, showing three officials and a captured suspect. Two are shackling the prisoner, and the third, holding an inscription in his hands, is probably informing him of his offences and the upcoming trial. (NVS)
Place of manufacture: Canton (Guangdong 廣東 )
Material description: paper from Tetrapanex
papyrifera (tongcao 通草) tree, silk
Manufacturing technique: gouache, watercolour
Dimensions: height: 25 cm, length: 38 cm
No. of parts: the fifth of twelve paintings
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
Object condition, handling and damage: The edges of the page are slightly torn.
History of exhibition: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, 31. 8. 2006–3. 9. 2007 (exhibition Srečevanja s Kitajsko: 200 let slovenskih odkrivanj kitajske kulture [Encounters with China: 200 years of Slovenian discovery of Chinese culture])
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