Go behind-the-scenes to examine an ancient silver vessel in the Straus Center for Conservation with objects conservator Angela Chang and Harvard student Anjie Liu. This video is included in the digital tool for our special exhibition “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” on view September 7, 2018–January 6, 2019. The exhibition presents a stunning range of elaborate animal-shaped vessels that span continents and millennia, vividly illustrating how ideas and artistic traditions were exchanged among cultures. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + EXHIBITION/ Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/5295/animal-shaped-vessels-from-the-ancient-world-feasting-with-gods-heroes-and-kings +DIGITAL TOOL/ Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: https://www.hvrd.art/animals + Art Talk—What Can We Learn From A Fragment? A Technical Study And Reconstruction Of An Ancient Silver Artifact with Angela Chang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4T-v46yZPw. --- SPEAKERS: + Angela Chang, conservator of objects and sculpture; head of the Objects Lab; and assistant director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies; + Anjie Liu, Harvard Class of 2018 --- Crucial support for the Animal-Shaped Vessels project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor. In addition, the Harvard Art Museums are deeply grateful to the anonymous donor of a gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden and to Malcolm H. Wiener (Harvard A.B. ’57, J.D. ’63) and Michael and Helen Lehmann for enabling us to mount this exhibition and to pursue the related research. This work was also made possible in part by the following endowed funds: the David M. Robinson Fund; the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund; and the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which brings outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: John Neely. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.