Photography Portal to the Tomb of a Princess
Photography Portal to the Tomb of a Princess
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A black-and-white photograph showing a type of stone memorial triumphal arch with three passages, namely the Lingxing Gate (Lingxingmen 櫺星門) leading to the princess’s burial area with the spiritual path (shendao 神道), the stele pavilion and the burial tumulus.
The photograph is the 262nd 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 Gung-Dschu-Fen: Portal. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.5 cm, width: 8.5 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
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