Retracing the footsteps

analysis of the Skušek collection

Abstract

The paper presents preliminary research into the original scope of the Skušek Collection, based on four lists and an old museum inventory entry of the collection of Asian art collected by Ivan Skušek Jr. during his six-year stay in China between 1914 and 1920. Furthermore, it presents the cross-referencing of the mentioned documents with the first inventory record when it was formally taken over by the National Museum of Slovenia in an attempt to recreate the original scope of the collection. Through analysis and comparison of these records and with support of photographic sources this research attempts to put objects of the Skušeks’ original collection into four different groups based on provenance research. Through several case studies it gives new insights into the dynamics of the largely unknown parts of history of the collection, and the paths some of the individual objects travelled over several decades in the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords

Ivan Skušek Jr.;Slovene Ethnographic Museum;East Asian collections;provenance research;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2021
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FF - Faculty of Arts
UDC:	069.5(292.57):930.85
COBISS:	77220099
ISSN:	2232-5131
Views:	210
Downloads:	64
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Po stopinjah
Secondary abstract:	V pričujočem prispevku so predstavljene preliminarne raziskave prvotnega obsega Skuškove zbirke na podlagi štirih seznamov in enega starejšega muzejskega inventarja zbirke azijskih predmetov, ki jih je Ivan Skušek ml. zbiral med šestletnim bivanjem na Kitajskem med letoma 1914 in 1920. Članek poskuša s primerjavo omenjenih dokumentov s prvim uradnim inventarnim zapisom ob prevzemu zbirke s strani Narodnega muzeja Slovenije poustvariti prvotni obseg zbirke. Z analizo in primerjavo teh zapisov ter z opiranjem na fotografske vire poskuša predmete izvirne Skuškove zbirke razvrstiti v štiri različne skupine, ki temeljijo na preliminarnih raziskavah provenience. Z več študijami primerov daje nov vpogled v dinamiko večinoma neznanih delov zgodovine zbirke ter prikaže poti posameznih predmetov skozi več desetletij prve polovice 20. stoletja.
Secondary keywords:	Ivan Skušek ml.;Slovenski etnografski muzej;vzhodnoazijske zbirke;raziskovanje provenience;zbirateljstvo;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 141-166
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ9 (25)
Issue:	ǂiss. ǂ3
Chronology:	2021
DOI:	10.4312/as.2021.9.3.141-166
ID:	13403681