Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Chlorite
- Dimensions
- 9 1/4 × 5 × 5 in. (23.5 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Subject Matter
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Flora Both · 99%
The title and subject metadata identify palms, and repeated stylized palm forms are clearly visible in three horizontal registers.
Visual Qualities
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Patterns Visual · 99%
Repeated overlapping scale- or lozenge-like motifs cover broad fields of the vessel and alternate with bands of palm imagery.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 96%
Decoration covers nearly the entire visible exterior through closely organized geometric and vegetal motifs.
Medium and Techniques
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Carving Visual · 90%
The motifs visibly form shallow raised and recessed relief cut into the vessel’s stone surface.
Time Periods
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Ancient Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the work to approximately 2700–2350 BCE, placing it within ancient art.
Materials
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Stone Both · 99%
The catalog identifies chlorite, while the image shows a dense green-gray stone-like surface rather than ceramic, glass, or metal.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Vase Both · 99%
The catalog classifies the object as a vase, and the image clearly shows a hollow, open-topped vessel with a broad rim.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.