The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a number of blue faience vases and chalices from Ancient Egypt in its collection.

The vessels, which range in condition from full works to fragments, are dated to the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.

Many items depicted reeds, lotuses, rivers, aquatic animals, and people, likely due to the glaze's blue-green coloration being associated with water.

The vessel's images possibly portray legends surrounding the flooding of the Nile, an event that was of significant economic and spiritual importance to the ancient Egyptians.

[1][5] Pieced together with pottery fragments, a second lotiform chalice in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection depicts a scene in which the god Hapi presents a ruler of Egypt with palm ribs and a scepter.