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.
Wine container in the form of a goose
This goose-shaped wine container, particularly its extended neck and standing posture, imitates the shape of archaic wine containers (fuzun). While the vessel exhibits a more realistic depiction of the bird, a development that began from the thirteenth century, it still embodies an archaic taste in the generalized expression of the bird’s wings and tail feathers.
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