Photography Laozi Statue in the Qinian Hall at the Temple of Heaven
Photography Laozi Statue in the Qinian Hall at the Temple of Heaven
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A black-and-white photograph showing a statue of the Daoist sage Laozi 老子 on a stone pedestal in the Qinian Hall (Qiniandian 祈年殿) of the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan 天壇) in Beijing.
The photograph is the 229th 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 Lao-Tse im “Blauen Tempel”. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 6.8 cm, width: 12 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: well preserved, trimmed on all sides
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