Photography White Stupa Temple
Photography White Stupa Temple
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A black-and-white photograph showing a white stupa at the White Pagoda Temple (Baitasi 白塔寺) in Beijing. The Buddhist temple is now called Miaoying Temple (Miaoyingsi 妙應寺). The stupa was built in the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368).
The photograph is the 224th 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 Blauer Tempel: Altar. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 9.8 cm, width: 8.7 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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