The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Figure of a Camel

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Program Information

Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

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 Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard 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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Sunday at the Met: Cambodian Rattan Discussion

Sunday at the Met: Cambodian Rattan Discussion
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Sunday at the Met: Cambodian Rattan Performance

Sunday at the Met: Cambodian Rattan Performance
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Figure of a Camel

Period:: Tang dynasty (618–907)
Date:: ca. late 7th–first half of the 8th century
Culture:: China
Medium:: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze and pigments
Dimensions:: H. 27 1/4 in. (69.2 cm)
Classification:: Tomb Pottery
Credit Line:: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991
Accession Number:: 1991.253.13

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