The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Snuff Bottle

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Program Information

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

Program information

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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Snuff Bottle

Period:: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–95)
Culture:: China
Medium:: Porcelain, green stone stopper
Dimensions:: H. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
Classification:: Snuff Bottles
Credit Line:: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921
Accession Number:: 21.175.352a, b

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