Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · statue
Fox
Description
Faience, traces of 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 small faience figurine depicting an animal, possibly a dog.
The artifact is a faience figurine representing an animal, likely a dog, positioned in a reclining posture. The craftsmanship highlights the animal's features with detailing around the head and body. The use of turquoise and brown colors is characteristic of Egyptian faience, suggesting stylistic and material origins consistent with Ancient Egyptian small-scale sculpture.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116280732 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 08.200.36 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546786 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.