The Met's The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty Closes 1/2

This coming Sunday, January 2, is the last day to see the major international loan exhibition The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty , currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The exhibition features over 200 extraordinary Chinese works drawn from collections in China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Dating from 1215, the year of Khubilai Khan's birth, to 1368, the fall of the Yuan dynasty, this landmark assemblage of works includes paintings and sculpture, as well as decorative arts in gold and silver, textile, ceramics, and lacquer.

The exhibition provides the visitor with a very good idea of what greeted the eyes of Marco Polo when he first reached Dadu (Khanbaligh), the capital of the Great Khan Khubilai.