Insert page Colour Schemes of Interstices in Carpentry Joints, Column end Plates, Columns, Supporting Elements, and Surfaces in interstices
Insert page Colour Schemes of Interstices in Carpentry Joints, Column end Plates, Columns, Supporting Elements, and Surfaces in interstices
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The 62nd insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows colour schemes of decorative patterns of interstices in carpenter’s joints, columns and their end plates, load-bearing elements, and surfaces in interstices decorating buildings 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 INTERSPACE PANEL BETWEEN NUKI. Figs. (A) - (E), COLOURING. THE DAIWA. Figs. (A) - (C), COLOURING. THE PILLAR. Figs. (A) - (H), COLOURING. THE MASUGUMI AND THE INTERSPACE PANEL. Figs. (A) - (F)
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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