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  2. Pavilion for Japanese Art - Wikipedia

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    The museum actually raised $7.5 million for the project, in addition to the Prices' gift. [5] Before entering the embrace of LACMA, the pavilion was first designed to be built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Price had assembled his extensive collection, and then was later redesigned as a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [6]

  3. List of museums in New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  4. Toshichi Iwata - Wikipedia

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    Several of his pieces are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [6] [7] A survey of his work in book form [8] was published in Japan in 1993. Works bearing the Iwata Glass Company label are often attributed as the work of Toshichi Iwata, or other members of his family, but are hand made art glass produced by workers in his factory.

  5. List of collections of Japanese art - Wikipedia

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    Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art USA Newark, New Jersey: The Newark Museum of Art: 7,000 Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods USA New York: Ronin Gallery: 17th – 21st century woodblock prints USA New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art: 17,000 USA Washington, D.C. Library of Congress: 2,500

  6. Volute - Wikipedia

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    Art Deco volutes on some decorative ironwork of the Madison Belmont Building (Madison Avenue no. 181–183) in New York City, by Ferrobrandt, 1925 [14] Art Deco volutes on a pair of elevator doors, by Edgar Brandt , 1926, wrought iron, glass, and patinated and gilded bronze, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum , Lisbon [ 15 ]

  7. Irises screen - Wikipedia

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    This second pair of screens has been held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1953, and were last displayed in 2013. [ 10 ] The second pair of iris screens, circa 1710–1716, was also painted with ink and color on gold-foiled paper, and measure 163.7 by 352.4 centimetres (64.4 in × 138.7 in) each.

  8. Mizuchi - Wikipedia

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    The ancient chronicle Nihongi contains references to mizuchi.Under the 67th year of the reign of Emperor Nintoku (conventionally dated 379 AD), it is mentioned that in central Kibi Province, at a fork on Kawashima River (川嶋河, old name of Takahashi River in Okayama Prefecture), a great water serpent or dragon (大虬) dwelt and would breathe or spew out its venom, poisoning and killing ...

  9. List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)

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    The materials are housed in museums (32), temples (9), shrines (8) and a university (1) in 27 cities of Japan. The Tokyo National Museum houses the greatest number of archaeological national treasures, with 7 of the 50. [3] The Japanese Paleolithic marks the beginning of human habitation in Japan. [4]