Insert page Coffered Ceiling Behind the Throne Podium in the Taihe Hall
Insert page Coffered Ceiling Behind the Throne Podium in the Taihe Hall
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The 33rd insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the coffered ceiling (zaojing 藻井) behind the podium on which the throne stood in the Hall of Supreme Harmony (Taihedian 太和殿) 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 Coffers behind the Dais in the T'ai-hê 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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