Photography Jade Buddha Image in the White Stupa in Beihai Park
Photography Jade Buddha Image in the White Stupa in Beihai Park
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A black-and-white photograph showing a seated Buddha statue in the White Stupa (Baita 白塔) on Qinghua Island (Qinghuadao 瓊華島) in Beihai Park (Beihai Gongyuan 北海公園) in Beijing. The park is located northeast of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) and was once an imperial garden. The Buddha statue is made of nephrite, one of two mineral types of jade.
The photograph is the 295th 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 Ming-Pagode: Buddha-Bild aus Nephrit. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 8.5 cm, width: 14.1 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: bluish discolouration of black colour, trimmed top and bottom edges
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