Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "27714",
    "label": "Seated Cat",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1564"
}

{
    "id": "27714",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1564",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Seated Cat",
    "description": "This small seated cat may have been used as an amulet; however the small hole on the bottom indicates that it was implemented into another base or on top of a staff.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-1st century BC (Late Period-Greco-Roman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1564",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "figurines",
        "amulets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1564_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1564_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.1564_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 1.4,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13/16 x W: 9/16 x D: 1/4 in. (1.99 x 1.4 x 0.65 cm)"
}

{
    "dynasty": "30th Dynasty-Ptolemaic Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CUR_48.1564_Lft_DD_RS2009.jpg",
    "mediaId": "54293ff6fc0015dd"
}