Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Bowl with fish and lotuses
Description
Faience
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 blue faience artifact featuring a fish motif with stylized plants.
The artifact is a circular blue faience piece showcasing a central fish motif surrounded by stylized plant elements. The design is simple yet elegant, characteristic of decorative art pieces. The use of blue is prominent and typical of faience works from ancient Egypt, often symbolizing water or the Nile.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389593 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.55 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329823 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.
- 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.