Statue of a Seated Cat

Description 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 double-crown nursing the young Harpokrates.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/19/1998	Examination	survey

Provenance 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.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters