Insert page Colour Schemes of Carpentry
Insert page Colour Schemes of Carpentry
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The 55th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative carpentry patterns of the Gate of Heavenly Purity (Qianqingmen 乾清門) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The upper left-hand part of the sheet shows the colour schemes of the decorative carpentry patterns from the inside of the door, the lower side shows the schemes from the middle part of the door, and the right-hand side of the sheet shows the schemes from the outside of the door.
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 NUKI. The Kashira-nuki of the Middle Compartment of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (E'), COLOURING. THE NUKI. The Kashira-nuki of the Middle Compartment of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (E''), COLOURING. THE NUKI. Part of the Right Side of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (E''')
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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