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May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Seder plate
Title:Seder plate
Artist:Artist Unknown
Date:c. 1880-1890
Creation Place:Europe, Czechoslovakia,
Credit Line:Gift of Michael Engel in memory of Celia Engel
Accession Number:98.140
This Seder plate was owned by a German Jewish couple who escaped from Germany in 1938 to Shanghai, China. They subsequently immigrated to the United States, where the donor obtained the plate from them.