Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

Bowl with fish and lotuses

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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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  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.