The Metropolitan Museum of Art - One from a Set of Dishes with Bamboo, Plum Blossoms, Butterflies, and Birds

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Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

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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One from a Set of Dishes with Bamboo, Plum Blossoms, Butterflies, and Birds

Period:: Southern Song (1127–1279)–Yuan (1271–1368) dynasty
Date:: late 13th–14th century
Culture:: China
Medium:: Silver with chased and punched decoration and gilding
Dimensions:: Diam. from 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) to 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1997
Accession Number:: 1997.33.6

This artwork is not on display

Description

Vessels such as these were used mainly for formal entertaining. It was likely to have been made in one of the cities along the lower reaches of the Yangzi River. The vessel has the same shape as contemporaneous works in porcelain and lacquer.
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A.D. 1000-1400 (7,067)
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