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Exhibition of East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991
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in his Foreword, where he characterized the collection as “one of the most Ṇ㺮☐ˤṾᾹ⮵㺮☐䘬䅙ッ炻普⣏ㆸ⼴㕤
distinguished and comprehensive assemblages of Asian lacquer to be found IJĺĺIJ⸜IJIJ㚰攳ⷽ䘬˪ņŢŴŵġłŴŪŢůġōŢŤŲŶŦųġŧųŰŮġ
in the Western world.” ŵũŦġńŰŭŭŦŤŵŪŰůġŰŧġŇŭŰųŦůŤŦġŢůťġʼnŦųţŦųŵġŊųŷŪůŨ˫
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Three years later, in April 1994, the Museum opened the Florence and
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Herbert Irving Galleries for South and Southeast Asian Art, giving the
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Metropolitan the most extensive display space for these arts anywhere
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outside Asia. Created with the curatorial guidance of Martin Lerner and
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Steven Kossak, this suite of eighteen galleries covering 13,500 square feet
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presents more than 800 works of art, including a number of Irving gifts. 夳ˤ
Then in 1997, reß ecting their abiding interest in Chinese art, the Irvings
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supported the opening of the Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for
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Chinese Decorative Arts—an entirely new third-ß oor display space, designed
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under the direction of senior curator James C. Y. Watt, that added 3,000
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square feet to the Asian Wing. These galleries feature discrete spaces for the

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