Photography Laozi in the Forbidden City
Photography Laozi in the Forbidden City
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A black-and-white photograph showing a statue of the Daoist sage Laozi 老子 in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城).
The photograph is the 227th 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 in der Verb. Stadt. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 6.9 cm, width: 12,1 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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