Insert page Animal Motif
The seventh insert from the album The Decoration of the Palace Buildings in Beijing. It shows animal motif patterns in bas-relief in different materials. The patterns decorate the buildings of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) in Beijing.
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: ANIMAL PATTERNS. Figs. (27)-(33)
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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