Insert page Colour Schemes of Beams
Insert page Colour Schemes of Beams
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The 60th insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. The upper part of the sheet shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the beam connecting the main columns in the Hall of Preserving Harmony (Baohedian 保和殿). The lower part of the sheet shows the colour schemes on the beam crossing the central part of the Hall of Central Harmony (Zhonghedian 中和殿), the colour schemes on the beam in the Zhai Hall (Zhaigong 齋宮) and the colour schemes of the patterns on the carpentry joints in the Hall of Central Harmony 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 Beam traversing the Main Pillars in the Pao-hê Hall, Fig. (A), COLOURING. The Beam traversing the Middle Compartment in the Chung-hê Hall, Fig. (B), COLOURING. The Beam in the Ch'ai Hall and the Kashira-nuki in the Chung-hê Hall, Fig. (C)
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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