Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Cosmetic Spoon in the Form of a Swimming Girl
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 faience artifact depicting a figure in a swimming position holding a vessel.
The artifact is made of blue-green faience and shows a human figure stretched out in a swimming pose, holding a small vessel or scoop. The figure has detailed hair and a slender, elongated form. The color and style are typical of ancient Egyptian faience work, often used for small decorative objects.
decorative
New Kingdom
good
Materials
faience
Connections
Materials
Faience
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116281773 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 44.4.14 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 546223 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.