Lot 84
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT

LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
11 in. (28 cm.) high excl. tenons.
Provenance
with Amina Seddik, Lausanne, April 1968.
European private collection, acquired from the above.
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Lot Essay

The seated feline is represented wearing a beaded cowrie-shell necklace with wadjet-eye pendant invoking protection and healing, tied in a bow at the back of the neck, and a single gold hoop earring in its left ear. For another large bronze cat wearing a similar cowrie-shell necklace with an aegis pendant see the Louvre Museum, inv. no. N 4538.

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