Painting Convict with chains
Painting Convict with chains
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The eight picture from an album of Chinese paintings of torture, court and execution scenes, showing a woman in handcuffs with a chain around her neck being pulled away from a child by another woman (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 eighth 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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