Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

Blue-Painted Dish from Malqata

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This enormous dish is decorated around the rim with the floral motifs found on other pottery from the site of Malqata (see 11.215.460–11.215.477).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.