Egyptian Art
The Museum's 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.
Egyptian Collar
The design of an elaborately beaded collar from the Tomb of Wah is reinterpreted as a serpentine motif for The Met x Ann Gish collaboration.
Alyssum
Inspired by an Egyptian floral plaque, Alyssum's delicate, fringed flowers and grey leaves are embroidered onto a herringbone ground.
Embellished Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom
Inspired by the ancient jewelry and metalwork in The Met's Egyptian Art collection.
Egyptian Faience
Inspired by a faience panel from Egypt's OId Kingdom period, we reimagine the shades of azure in a jacquard with embroidered lines.
Qasaba
Inspired by the vast collection of papyrus, reed, and linen artifacts in the Egyptian Wing of The Met. Named for a famous cobblestone street in Cairo, Qasaba elicits the texture and tone of the stones of Egypt, even the hatch marks on the papyrus fragment shown here.
