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.
Vase with dragons
Aside from creating archaic designs, fourteenth-century artists explored a new array of pictorial motifs, such as the powerful dragons on this vase. These creatures, a popular motif found on ceramics of the time, have been translated here from a two-dimensional design into high-relief imagery on bronze.
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