Bowl with Floral Motifs

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The geometric decoration on this bowl is also found on pottery from Nubia and represents the ways in which objects and visual ideas from throughout Egypt and Africa made their way to Kharga. The pigment, however, was likely from a local source of red-ochre, which suggest that the bowl was made by a pottery workshop in the Western Desert.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art