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from the issue of March 4, 2004
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Lentz Center displays collection of ivory
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture will offer its spring show, “Ivories from the Lentz Center Collections,” from March 12 to June 27. A public reception will be from 5-7 p.m. March 26.
The Lentz Center’s ivory collection features pieces donated by several families. The display will include Chinese figures from the Donald and Velma Lentz collection, and the pieces from Patricia F. King and her brother, Michael F. Flannigan, include large and small fishing and pleasure boats, carved tusks, snuff bottles and small elephants. Items from Clifton and Mary Hillegass include two carved boxes, a statue of the Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, and a Ming Dynasty plaque carved with the depiction of a scholar and a calligraphic inscription.
Although the Lentz Center usually has some of its ivory on exhibition, this is the first time the whole collection will be on view. The collection consists of more than 50 pieces of ivory. It is now illegal to import ivory because poachers have killed many elephants for the purpose of selling their tusks. All of the ivories in the Lentz Center predate this law.
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