Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel
Jar
Description
Faience, blue glaze
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 faience vessel with a vibrant blue glaze.
The artifact is a small vessel made of faience, a glazed non-clay ceramic material. It exhibits a vibrant blue glaze with a few areas of surface wear and small patches where the glaze has flaked off. The vessel features a bulbous, tiered shape typical of certain ceremonial or decorative items. The blue color is commonly associated with representations of water or the sky in Egyptian art.
unclear
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281257 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 33.1.25 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546453 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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