Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and RiderFragment of a Bowl with a Horse and RiderFragment of a Bowl with a Horse and RiderFragment of a Bowl with a Horse and RiderFragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider

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.