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BRONZE STATUETTE OF THE CAT GODDESS BASTET
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BRONZE STATUETTE OF THE CAT GODDESS BASTET
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
BRONZE STATUETTE OF THE CAT GODDESS BASTET
Egyptian art, Late Period or Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 BC
A small statuette depicting the goddess Bastet in the form of a cat sitting on her hindquarters, with her forepaws raised and pierced ears, which once held a pair of rings, now lost.
Height: 6.5 cm (excluding tenons)
Provenance: Former collection of Carl von Weinberg (1861–1943), Frankfurt am Main
By bequest, Richard von Szilvinyi collection, 1949, then by inheritance
Nagel, auction 785, Stuttgart, 18 March 2020: lot 463 (ill.)
Private collection, Paris
An Egyptian bronze cat,
Late to Ptolemaic Period, 664–30 BC.
See original version (French)
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