AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT

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ID 734888
Lot 28 | AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.

14 3⁄4 in. (37.4 cm.) high







Provenance

Robert Sturgis Ingersoll (1891-1973), president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1947-1964, Philadelphia, acquired by 1962; thence by descent.

Property of the Late R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Esquire, Philadelphia; Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4 May 1974, lot 198.

Richard T. Wilson, U.K.

The Property of R.T. Wilson, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1996, lot 70.





Literature

National Geographic 122, no. 4, October 1962, n.p. (advertisement).

Esquire, May 1962, p. 25 (advertisement).

R. Seltzer, "Ingersoll Art to Be Auctioned at Super-Sale," The Philadelphia Inquirer, 12 April 1974, p. 11-B.

A. Edelstein, ed., Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1973-1974, New York, 1974, p. 321.





Exhibited

Kent, Leeds Castle Foundation, circa 1976-1996.

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