On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
"Jianzhao" goosefoot lamp
Along with the “Jingning” lamp, on display nearby, this is one of two famous goosefoot lamps exemplifying the high regard for antiquity during the wave of epigraphy in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was widely published and circulated among scholar-officials and connoisseurs.
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