Insert page Marble Bridge in the Yingtai Complex
Insert page Marble Bridge in the Yingtai Complex
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The 135th insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows the marble bridge in the Yingtai 瀛臺 complex on an island in the middle of the South Lake (Nanhai 南海) in the former Imperial West Park (Xiyuan 西苑). It is located west of 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 Marble Bridge of the Ying T'ai.
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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