Insert page Colour Schemes of Round Roof Elements, Ends of Carpentry Joints, Wooden Corner Decoration and Moulding
Insert page Colour Schemes of Round Roof Elements, Ends of Carpentry Joints, Wooden Corner Decoration and Moulding
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The 72nd insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows colour schemes of decorative patterns of round roof elements (Jp. gagyō 丸桁), ends of carpenter joints and wooden corner ornaments and stucco decorating buildings in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.
Workshop / factory / publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa, College of Engineering, Imperial University of Tokyo
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: coloured print
Dimensions: length: 48.2 cm, height: 36.4 cm
Inscription: COLOURING. THE END OF THE GWANGYO. Figs. (A) - (J), COLOURING. THE END OF THE KASHIRA-NUKI. Figs. (A) - (K), COLOURING. THE EYO & MOULDING. Figs. (A) - (B)
No. of parts: 1
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
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