Seated Cat

ca. 664-350 BCE (Late Period)

8.5 cm 18.3 cm 14.4 cm

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Cats were popular in Egypt and were associated with the goddess Bastet. This seated cat with its tail curled forward has golden earrings, a golden scarab inlaid on the forehead, and a necklace with a pendant in low relief. The pendant displays a standing goddess with the doubl...

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William Forman Collection; Major Alexander Henry Browne (nephew and heir of William Forman), 1869, by bequest; Sale, Sotheby's, London, June 1899; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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