Vase

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image shows a yellow vase with Asian writing on it. The vase is tall and slender, with a wide mouth and a narrow body that curves outward slightly at the bottom. The vase is bright yellow and has a glossy finish. There are several lines of black Chinese characters written on the vase in a vertical column. The characters are written in a formal, cursive script. At the top of the vase, there is a small circular seal or stamp with more Chinese characters inside it. The background of the image is a plain gray color. The vase casts a slight shadow on the surface below it.