Insert page Colour Schemes of Patterns
Insert page Colour Schemes of Patterns
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The 49th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the ceilings of the Hall of Heavenly Purity (Qianqinggong 乾清宮) and the Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian 中和殿) 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 CEILING. The Ceiling of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Hall (I) and the Chung-hê Hall (II)
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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