Exhibitions/ Selected Artworks

Celebrating the Year of the Rooster

At The Met Fifth Avenue
January 25–July 4, 2017

Exhibition Objects


7 Objects

Dish with Rooster, Hen, and Chickens

Date: 18th century Medium: Porcelain painted with colored enamel over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) Accession Number: 79.2.577

Vessel in the Form of a Heavenly Rooster

Date: 19th century Medium: Bronze inlaid with gold and silver Accession Number: 14.58.176

Incense burner in the shape of a rooster

Date: second half 18th century Medium: Cloisonné enamel Accession Number: 29.110.41

Chicken-Headed Ewer

Date: 4th–5th century Medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze (Yue ware) Accession Number: 1979.353

Chicken cup

Accession Number: 1987.85

Medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze colored enamel (Jingdezhen ware) Accession Number: 1987.85

Zodiac Figure: Rooster

Date: 18th century Medium: Porcelain, in the biscuit and with turquoise and aubergine glazes Accession Number: 1992.100.8

Set of twelve zodiac animals

Date: 8th century Medium: Earthenware with white slip Accession Number: 2000.662.7a–l