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Painting Convicts tied with weights/em>
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The fourth picture from an album of torture, court and execution scenes from the Qing Dynasty, showing three condemned men with iron chains and weights.
Various aspects of Chinese society that were unusual, exotic, and seductive appealed to Western visitors. In addition to illustrations of various forms of punishment and court proceedings, they could purchase photo albums depicting court life and the interiors of Chinese rooms and gardens where court ladies stayed. Motifs depicting tea or silk production, theatre and opera performances, and especially a variety of local landmarks, including ships in the harbours, were also popular. (NVS)
Place of manufacture: Canton (Guangdong 廣東 )
Material description: paper from Tetrapanex
papyrifera (tongcao 通草) tree, silk
Manufacturing technique: gouache, watercolour
Dimensions: height: 25 cm, length: 38 cm
No. of parts: the fourth of twelve paintings
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Last acquisition method: donation
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: The edges of the page are slightly torn.
History of exhibition: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, 31. 8. 2006–3. 9. 2007 (exhibition Srečevanja s Kitajsko: 200 let slovenskih odkrivanj kitajske kulture [Encounters with China: 200 years of Slovenian discovery of Chinese culture])
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