Insert page Colour Schemes of Carpentry
Insert page Colour Schemes of Carpentry
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The 56th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the colour schemes of the decorative carpentry patterns of the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The upper and middle parts of the sheet show the colour schemes of the decorative carpentry patterns from the central part of the hall’s interior, while the lower part of the sheet shows the colour schemes of the beams connecting the four main columns in the hall.
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 in the Interior of the T'ai-hê Hall, Fig. (F), COLOURING. THE NUKI. Half of the Middle Compartment of the Ch'ien-ch'ing Hall and the Beam traversing the Four Main Pillars in the Interior, Fig. (G)
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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