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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Ring Stone

Period:: Shunga period
Date:: ca. 1st–2nd century B.C.
Culture:: India
Medium:: Stone
Dimensions:: H. 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987
Accession Number:: 1987.142.374

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 234

Description

This ring stone is from India and dates from the Mauryan period, third to second century B.C.
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Sculpture (24,340)

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Asia (68,122)

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1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,142)
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South Asia, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.
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