Painting Punishment on a wooden cross
Painting Punishment on a wooden cross
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The third picture from an album of Chinese paintings of torture, court and execution scenes, showing a bare-chested woman tied to a wooden cross.
These paintings were on a special type of paper that Cantonese artists began to make from the native evergreen tree tongcao 通草 (Tetrapanax papyrifer), which is common in southern China and Taiwan. Artificial flowers were also made from the white bark of this tree, and it was used for medicinal purposes as well. (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 third 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] [Encounters with China: 200 years of Slovenian discovery of Chinese culture])
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