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.
Bronze vessel with flowers
Zhao Zhiqian Chinese
Cheng Shouqian Chinese
Not on view
A genre known as “antiques and flowers” (bogu huahui) became popular as fascination with antiquarianism and epigraphy grew during the nineteenth century. This elegant hanging scroll exemplifies the creative combination of paintings of flowers and ink rubbings of archaistic vessels.
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