Photography Pagoda Cishou Sita in Bali Village
Photography Pagoda Cishou Sita in Bali Village
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A black-and-white photograph showing the Cishou Temple Pagoda (Cishou Sita 慈壽寺塔) or Marble Pagoda in Bali Village (Balizhuang 八里莊), which is now part of Haidian District (Haidianqu 海洉區) in Beijing.
The photograph is the 239th 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 Pagoda and Ba-Li-Dchuang. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 6,3 cm, width: 11.1 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 preservedi, trimmed on all sides
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