The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wine cup (Zhi)

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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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Wine cup (Zhi)

Period:: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600–1046 B.C.)
Culture:: China
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Kennedy Fund, 1913
Accession Number:: 13.220.138

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