Bronze After Gayer-Anderson Cat (664–332 BC) New Arrivals and a first edition thus

and a first edition thus

Payne married and had 14 children

however overall it remains a very good condition

A very attractive George III mahogany knife / cutlery box of serpentine form inlaid with a satinwood conch shell motif

Bronze After Gayer-Anderson Cat (664–332 BC) New Arrivals and a first edition thusAn 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