A GOLD INLAID BRONZE STATUETTE OF A SEATED CAT, with gold encrusted collar and flecks of fur, with traces of a gold encrusted scarab between its ears, and gold on the eyes and mouth, tanged base

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A GOLD INLAID BRONZE STATUETTE OF A SEATED CAT, with gold encrusted collar and flecks of fur, with traces of a gold encrusted scarab between its ears, and gold on the eyes and mouth, tanged base
circa 9th-8th Century B.C.
2½in. (6.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage, Leningrad, 1974, nos. 124 and 130 for other gold encrusted statues; also, Exhibition catalogue, Tanis l'or des pharaons, Paris - Marseille, 1987, no. 42, p. 164 for a gold encrusted bronze sphinx of King Siamun, Dynasty XXI, circa 970 B.C.

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