AN EGYPTIAN SILVER CAT

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

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AN EGYPTIAN SILVER CAT
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD,
664-30 B.C.
Depicted seated with its tail wrapped along the right side of its body, wearing a necklace incised with a wadjet-eye pendant, and a crescent-shaped earring in the pierced right ear
4¼ in. (10.7 cm.) high

来源

with Ernst Brummer, 1964.
Joseph Ternbach; Sotheby's, New York, 24-25 Novemeber 1987, lot 262.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988.

出版

J.M. Eisenberg and R.S. Bianchi, Catalogue of the Egyptian and Near Eastern Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York, 1992, no. 88-39.

拍品专文

Although extremely popular in ancient Egyptian art, examples in silver are so exceptional that no depiction of a cat in this precious metal is illustrated by Malek in The Cat in Ancient Egypt, his popular account of this favorite pet.