Insert page Colour Schemes of Roof Tiles
Insert page Colour Schemes of Roof Tiles
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The 76th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the roof tiles of the Yongan Temple (Yongansi 永安寺), the Yuhua Pavilion (Yuhuage 雨華閣), the entrance of the Zhongxiangjie 眾香界 in the complex at the foot of Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan 萬壽山), and the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing. It shows the colour scheme of the pavilion on Mount Jing (Jingshan 景山), which stands in the former imperial park, now Jingshan Public Park (Jingshangongyuan 景山公園).
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 ROOF-TILES. Table of colouring, Figs. (A) - (G) The Roof of the Yung-an Temple, Fig. (H) and the Chung-hsiang-chieh of Wan-shou Shan, Fig. (I), COLOURING. THE ROOF-TILES. The Yü-hwa Pavilion, Fig. (J), and Ching Shan, Fig. (K)
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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