cat and kitten

 

This is a hollow bronze container with no trace of a catch. On it is a cat, lying on her left side, with her head turned right. She is suckling four kittens between her legs.

BRONZE

LATE PERIOD

Inventory number 661

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Komorzynski, E., "Tierbilder aus dem Alten Ägypten", in: Frohes Schaffen XXVII, Wien (1953) 250.

Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin (1956) # 463e.

Komorzynski, E., Das Erbe des alten Ägypten, Wien (1965) Abb. 65.

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