Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes

Fragmentary Platter with Fish and Rosettes

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This platter with its lively fish was found in the ruins of a hermit’s solitary retreat near the Monastery of Epiphanius. Such painted wares were an innovative Egyptian variation on the more elaborate redware with stamped designs that was made farther west in North Africa.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.