Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Figure of a dwarf
Description
Blue 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 small faience figure depicting a dwarf holding a vessel.
The artifact is a faience statuette representing a dwarf holding a cylindrical vessel against his chest. The figure displays typical stylistic features of Egyptian art, with a robust body and exaggerated facial features. The statuette has traces of greenish coloring, common in Egyptian faience. The simplicity of the design suggests it might have been a votive offering or an amulet.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116245507 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 22.1.286 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 545099 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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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.