Small Duck
Description
Caption: Small Duck, 2nd century C.E.. Terracotta, 2 x 1 7/16 x 2 3/8 in. (5.1 x 3.6 x 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.281. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A stone sculpture of a bird with smooth contours.
The image depicts a minimalistic stone sculpture of a bird, characterized by smooth, flowing contours and a simplistic form. The piece lacks detailed features and instead focuses on capturing the essence of a bird's shape. The material appears to be limestone or a similar stone, giving it a monochromatic and elegant appearance. Notable is the abstract style, which suggests it might be from a period where formal depiction wasn't the primary focus.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 16.281 tier-2
- BKM-Object 9539 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.