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Filmske novice 1:
Zanimiva zbirka. Avtor Vladimir Peris\u030cic\u0301 \u00a9 Filmske novosti Beograd,1957. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFDnA8UzBr0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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On September 8, 1920, Ivan Sku\u0161ek Jr. and his wife Tsuneko Kondo Kawase (left), together with her two children, arrived at Ljubljana.<\/p>

Ivan Sku\u0161ek had served as a commissioner to the sea in the Austro-Hungarian navy and had been on board of the vessel Kaiserin Elisabeth on a mission to China when World War 1 broke out. The Kaiserin Elisabeth sunk in the battle of Tsingtao, at the beginning of the war, as the Japanese army attacked the German colony. The Austro-Hungarians were either taken to Japan as POWs or were practically stranded in China. In 1917, when China officially declared war to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the Austro-Hungarian detachment was imprisoned and they were officially released only in 1920. A few months later, the Sku\u0161eks embarked on a ship in Shanghai for a passage to Marseille – leaving China for a post-WW1 Slovenia which was unfamiliar not only to the Japanese woman. A month later several dozens of boxes filled with all kinds of Chinese art objects followed via a different route. The circumstances under which Ivan Sku\u0161ek could acquire such a mass of Chinese art are not yet completely clear. Most of the pieces were from the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu emperors, the last dynasty of China. At the time of acquisition (ca. 1915-1920), the majority of the objects were not yet antiquities in the classical sense, as they had been produced during the final phase of the Qing period just a few decades earlier. Still, a few pieces, especially the religious objects such as several metal works depicting Buddhist Tantric deities, are datable to the early Qing Dynasty.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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...and snapshot of Curatorial Heritage<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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As Ivan Sku\u0161ek\u2019s idea of establishing a museum for Asian art in Ljubljana never became a reality, the selected pieces from the collection – furniture, porcelain, textiles, pipes, and even the sculptures – became part of their everyday life as the couple decorated and embellished their flat with the various items. The collection continued through all their living spaces, as they occupied three different flats over the decades to come. After Tsuneko\u2019s death in 1963, the collection was moved to the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum (SEM).<\/p>

In March 2023, a bilateral project application was approved by ARIS (SI) and FWF (AUT) to reconstruct the history of the collection and digitise the objects in the context of the Sku\u0161ek\u2019s lived-in museum. Most of the pieces were located in the storage room of the museum. Some objects even had been in boxes since the packing in China.<\/p>

To document the research findings of the bilateral project and make them universally accessible as well as provide updates and insights into the ongoing research process, this website was created and will be continuously updated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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