"Jianzhao" goosefoot lamp

36 BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 216

On loan to The Met

This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.

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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西漢　建昭雁足燈
Title: "Jianzhao" goosefoot lamp
Period: Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE)
Date: 36 BCE
Culture: China
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H. 5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm); Diam. 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm)
Classification: Metalwork
Credit Line: Lent by Shanghai Museum
Rights and Reproduction: Photograph courtesy of Shanghai Museum
Curatorial Department: Asian Art