Insert page Botanical Motif
Insert page Botanical Motif
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The ninth insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows the motif of floral and plant patterns decorating the buildings of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing. We recognise the motif of the peony (mudan 牡丹), which represents spring in China. It also symbolises the wealth and honour associated with an official position or high social position.
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: BOTANIC PATTERNS. Figs. (A) - (V) ; Exs. (1) - (7)
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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