EGYPT FAIENCE CAT NECKLACE.

EGYPT FAIENCE CAT NECKLACE

Composed of sixty-eight miniature turquoise and green glazed amulets of cats seated on their haunches, interspersed with small blue-green circular beads, with a central blue-green faience amulet of a seated ibis flanked by two miniature frog amulets, one turquoise coloured, the other green-brown.

Ex private coll., Germany, acquired before 1972; ex priv. coll. I.F.V., Netherlands, inherited J.R, Netherlands
L. c. 53 cm. Restrung, modern gold hook and eye clasp.

New Kingdom, 18^th dyn., c. 1300 BC