Insert page Vessel for Measuring Volume jialiang in Front of the Taihe Gate
Insert page Vessel for Measuring Volume jialiang in Front of the Taihe Gate
CC BY-SA 4.0
The 15th insert from the album The Imperial City of Beijing, China. The photo shows a vessel used to measure volume according to different standards jialiang 嘉量 in front of the Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen 太和門) 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 Chia-liang before the T'ai-hê Gate.
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
Do you have a comment or additional information about the subject?