Art & design 2-minute look

Pour a drink from a celadon duck.

Celadon duck-shaped ewer with a small Daoist priest holding a bowl on its back.

A duck’s beak becomes the spout and its tail the handle of this Korean ewer. A tiny Daoist figure holds the bowl through which the vessel would have been filled.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago

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Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bequest of Russell Tyson

Creator: Unknown artist (Korea)

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