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Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

1200–1268
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 303
When intact, this example of Port Saint Symeon ware may have shown the rider hunting with a falcon. It is typical of the wares produced in the 1200s at the Crusader port of the Byzantine city of Antioch, which fell to the Mamluks of Egypt in 1268. Similar examples have been found in Crusader castles in the Holy Land as well as Italy.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider
  • Date: 1200–1268
  • Geography: Made in Port Saint Symeon (now al-Mina/Samandag,Turkey)
  • Culture: Byzantine
  • Medium: Terracotta with green glaze over slip, decorated in sgraffito
  • Dimensions: Overall: 6 3/4 x 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 3 3/8 in. (17.2 x 1.3 x 27 x 8.5 cm)
    Proposed Diameter for complete bowl: 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1984
  • Object Number: 1984.181
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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