The Beihai Park is located North of the Gugong Imperial Palace in Beijing. The North sea is one of the six lakes connected to the Summer Palace by channels. Beihai has many elegant bridges, gardens, pavilions, and galleries. In the foreground one can see the surface of the lake; a white marble bridge, or a bridge of Eternal Peace, leads from the South shore to the Jade island (Chunhua). In the background there is the Bai Ta pagoda (White stupa), a covered gallery and other attractions of the island of Chunhua. The left and the right sides of the tapestry are covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions. The North sea Park is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape design that has developed over a millennium.
Tapestry with the image of the park “Northern Sea” (Beihai) – a landscape and temple complex in Beijing
China ,
23.11.1951
МЗСБ КП 1382
43,5 х 73 cm
silk, weaving
Present of the delegation of the Chinese writers to the Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad Museum of Defense, Hangzhou
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Vase on the stand
China ,
May 1954
Vase on the stand
A gift from the delegation of Chinese cultural workers who visited Stalingrad in May 1954.A wide neck vase with the edges that bent outwards. It is decorated with floral ornaments, namely branches and blooming fruit trees as well as with peonies. The colour of the vase is pastel green.
Traditional hat of shepherds in northeastern Brazil.
Brazil ,
1953
Traditional hat of shepherds in northeastern Brazil.
A gift from a group of Brazilian medical workers who visited Stalingrad in 1953. A men’s hat. It is a hat with a conical crown decorated with a trim and perforated holes and has a hard felt medium brim. Two straps, a chinstrap and a back strap are pulled onto the brim, thus turning into a kind of fringe made of leather straps that fall down on both sides of the hat. The gift was given to the Soviet scientists at the Convention of oncologists in Brazil.