Insert page Coffered Ceiling Above the Throne Podium in the Yangxin Hall

Insert page Coffered Ceiling Above the Throne Podium in the Yangxin Hall

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The 83rd insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows a coffered ceiling (zaojing 藻井) with a dome in the Hall of Spiritual Cultivation (Yangxindian 養心殿) in the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.

Workshop / factory / publisher: Ogawa Kazumasa, Tokyo Imperial Museum
Place of manufacture: Tokyo
Material description: paper
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white print
Dimensions: length: 48.2 cm, height: 36.4 cm
Inscription: The Coffered Vault above the Dais in the Yang-hsin Hall.
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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