Insert page Colour Schemes of Rafters, Roof Battens, Corner Rafters and façade
Insert page Colour Schemes of Rafters, Roof Battens, Corner Rafters and façade
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The 63rd insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows colour schemes of decorative patterns on rafters, roof battens, sloping corner rafters, and wall façades. The patterns decorate 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 TARUKI AND THE URAITA. Figs. (A) - (J), COLOURING. THE SUMIGI. Figs. (A) and (B), COLOURING. THE FACE OF THE WALL. Figs. (A) and (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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