Bronze After Gayer-Anderson Cat (664–332 BC) Books - Biography blind stamped detail and gilt

blind stamped detail and gilt title/author panels

complete with original brass end cap

Diameter: 4cm

Height - 11

A lovely sterling silver napkin ring by James Dixon & Sons

Bronze After Gayer-Anderson Cat (664–332 BC) Books - Biography blind stamped detail and giltAn interesting early 20th century bronze after the Gayer Anderson Cat (664332 BC). The Gayer Anderson cat is a bronze figure depicting one form of the goddess Bastet. The goddess was usually shown as a cat headed woman, or in the form of a cat. Her principal cult centre was Bubastis in the Nile Delta. Bastet was a mother goddess and benign counterpart to the more aggressive lion goddess Sekhmet. The original cat dates from the Late Period of ancient