Insert page Colour Schemes of the Elements Supporting the Eaves and the Throne Podium
Insert page Colour Schemes of the Elements Supporting the Eaves and the Throne Podium
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The 70th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the elements supporting the eaves of the Gate of Heavenly Purity (Qianqingmen 乾清門), the Hall of Heavenly Purity (Qianqinggong 乾清宮) and other buildings in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The colour schemes of the decorative patterns of the throne podium in the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿) are also shown on the lower right-hand side of the insert.
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 MOCHI-OKURI. A Bracket of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (D), COLOURING. THE MOCHI-OKURI. A Bracket of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Hall, Fig. (E), COLOURING. THE MOCHI-OKURI. Figs. (F) - (H), COLOURING. THE IMPERIAL DAIS. The Dais in the T'ai-hê Hall, Fig. (A)
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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