Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Blue-painted Jar from Malqata
Description
pottery, slip, paint
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 painted Egyptian pottery vessel adorned with blue and purple floral and avian motifs.
The artifact is a large Egyptian pottery vessel featuring intricate painted decorations in blue and purple shades. The design emphasizes natural themes, displaying patterns of birds in flight and stylized plant motifs. The craftsmanship reflects artistic techniques used in ancient Egyptian ceramics, with a focus on both aesthetic and symbolic elements.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
ceramic
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116247693 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 11.215.462 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544507 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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