Photography Birth of Buddha Relief on the Marble Pagoda in Xihuang Temple
Photography Birth of Buddha Relief on the Marble Pagoda in Xihuang Temple
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A black-and-white photograph showing a relief on the Marble Pagoda (Qingjinghua Chengta 清淨化城塔) at the Lamaist Xihuang Temple (Xihuangsi 西黃寺) in Beijing. The relief shows the birth of the Buddha.
The photograph is the 234th 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 Skulpturen der Marmourpagode: Buddha’s Geburt. (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: well preserved
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