Insert page Colour Schemes of Bulidings on Ying Terrace
Insert page Colour Schemes of Bulidings on Ying Terrace
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The 78th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the buildings on Ying Terrace (Yingtai 瀛臺) from the perspective of Biyue Pavilion (Biyuelou 避月樓). This is located in the West Park (Xiyuan 西苑) west of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城).
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
Inscription: COLOURING. THE YING T'AI BUILDINGS. (As seen from the Pi-yüeh Pavilion in the Hsi Yüan)
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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