Insert page Colour Schemes of Beams

The 61st insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. The upper left-hand part of the sheet shows the colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the beam connecting the main columns in the Gate of Heavenly Purity (Qianqingmen 乾清門), and the middle/lower left-hand part of the sheet shows the colour schemes on the beam crossing the Jingyang Hall (Jingyanggong 景陽宮) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. The colour schemes of the decorative patterns on the beam in the Central Gate (Wumen 午門), the colour schemes on the beam of Yuhua Pavilion (Yuhuage 雨華閣), and the colour schemes of the patterns on the beam in the gallery or covered corridor of the complex at the foot of Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan 萬壽山) and the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing, are shown on the right-hand side of the insert sheet.

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Object history

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 Ch'ien-ch'ing Gate, Fig. (D), COLOURING. The Beam traversing the Ching-yang Hall, Fig. (E), COLOURING. The Beam in the Wu Gate , Fig. (F), COLOURING. The Beam in the Gallery of Wan-shou Shan, Fig. (G), COLOURING. The Beam in the Yü-hwa Pavilion, Fig. (H)

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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