Wang Xizhi Watching Geese (detail)
Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307)
China
Yuan dynasty, ca. 1295
Handscroll; ink, color and gold on paper; 9 1/8 x 36 1/2 in. (23.2 x 92.7 cm)
Inscribed by the artist (far left) and by the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–95; upper left, dated 1746)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ex. Coll.: C.C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973 (1973.120.6)

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While the Chinese were forced to accept the Mongols’ political dominance, the size and complexity of this new domain obliged the Mongols to gradually adopt Chinese political and cultural models.