Photography Sundial and Ibis Statue in the Summer Palace
Photography Sundial and Ibis Statue in the Summer Palace
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A black-and-white photograph showing a freestanding sundial made of white marble hanbai yushi 漢白玉石. Behind it stands a bronze statue of an ibis on a marble pedestal. Both are located in the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing.
The photograph is the 322nd 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 Wan-Schou-Schan: Sonne-Uhr [sic] und Bronze-Ibis. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 6.6 cm, width: 12,4 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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