The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Openwork Panel Depicting a Door Guardian (Dvarapala)

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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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Openwork Panel Depicting a Door Guardian (Dvarapala)

Date:: late 18th century
Culture:: India (Karnataka, Mysore or Tamil Nadu)
Medium:: Ivory
Dimensions:: H. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); W. 1 3/4 In. (4.4 cm); D. 3/16 in. (0.5 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2011
Accession Number:: 2011.576.1

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