Insert page Colour Schemes of Ceilings

Insert page Colour Schemes of Ceilings

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The 52nd insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative ceiling patterns in the Hall of the Union of Heaven and Earth (Jiaotaidian 交秦殿) 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 Chiao-t'ai Hall (VII) and Figs. (VIII) - (XV)
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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