Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Pedestal for a Miniature Statue
Description
Ivory
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.
An ancient Egyptian chair model carved from a light material.
This piece is a miniature model of an ancient Egyptian chair, with simple yet elegant carvings on its base. The chair is tall and slender with a curved backrest, indicative of stylized representations used in Egyptian art. The carvings on the front part of the chair suggest symbolic motifs, possibly hieroglyphic or decorative in nature.
decorative
unknown
good
Materials
ivory
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116415483 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.222 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 548447 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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