Exclive to the Brish Mm, and part of the Objects Foc range of books, a gui to the Gayer-Anrson Cat.
Contents:
- THE GAYER-ANRSON T
- THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT
- BASTET, GAYER-ANRSON CAT
- GAYER-ANRSON: THE MAN BEHD THE CAT
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- THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT: OBJECT FOC
- GAYER-ANRSON CAT
THE GAYER-ANRSON T
View a 3D mol of the Gayer-Anrson t and disver why is one of the Brish Mm's masterpiec. * the gayer anderson cat *
The Gayer-Anrson t is a bronze figure pictg one form of the godss Bastet. It's named after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anrson, who donated the statue to the Brish Mm 1939.
Gayer-Anrson was a keen llector of small Egyptian sculptur, jewellery and pottery. He showsed the his home Cairo, now known as the Gayer-Anrson Mm. The Gayer-Anrson t is the most famo object of Robert Gayer-Anrson's llectn of oriental art.
Bequt of Major Robert Gayer-Anrson, 1939.
THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT
The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anrson t after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anrson who donated to the Brish Mm. * the gayer anderson cat *
The Gayer-Anrson Cat. "The Gayer-Anrson Cat.
The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anrson t after Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anrson who, together wh Mary Stout Shaw, donated to the Brish, The Gayer-Anrson CatThe t wears jewelry and a protective wadjet amulet. A py of the statue is kept the Gayer-Anrson Mm, loted Cairo.
BASTET, GAYER-ANRSON CAT
The Gayer- Anrson Cat is a life-size st ma of pper alloy reprentg the female t y Bastet. The t wears jewellery, a Wedjat Eye amulet on s cht, a srab between the ears and a band of ratn around s neck reprentg a llar (Brish Mm, 2008). It was ma g the lost-wax stg… * the gayer anderson cat *
The wadjet eye symboliz protectn and regeneratn, and the srab, symbolizg the sun, is also a metaphor of rebirth as exemplified the daily solar cycle…”― Masterpiec of Ancient Egypt, Nigel StdwickBastet, Gayer-Anrson CatThis bronze figure probably om a temple. In parts of Egypt, ts were bred large numbers, so that worshipers of Bastet uld show their votn to the godss by payg for a t’s ceremonial of Bastet, Gayer-Anrson CatThe ma place of worship of the godss Bastet was the cy of Bubastis. Gayer-Anrson, mostly known for the ancient t that was once his llectn, led a fascatg life as an adventurer, surgeon, soldier, llector, dilettante, and lover and prerver of bety.
All imag om Gayer-Anrson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha (AUC Prs). It is known simply as the Gayer-Anrson Cat.
GAYER-ANRSON: THE MAN BEHD THE CAT
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[ptn id="attachment_536985" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Gayer-Anrson Cat[/ptn]. The life of the man behd the t is explored a new book, Gayer Anrson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha, by Louise Foxcroft.
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The future Major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anrson Pasha was born alongsi an intil tw—wh whom he had a mystil nnectn throughout his life—at Listowel, County Kerry on July 29th, 1881. That this love of bety should bee fixed prcipally on objects, however, may well be attributable to what Gayer-Anrson scribed as the “cid stra of sadism” exhibed by his father. As a rult, Gayer-Anrson learned to mouflage his feelgs beneath the imperable armor of rualistic behavr and excsive orrls, and, even durg his school years, he beme creasgly obssed exclively by the power of bety and the acquisn of betiful thgs.
At the age of seventeen, 1898, Gayer-Anrson started medil trag at Guy’s Hospal London, emergg as a qualified surgeon 5 years later. Forever a rtls spir, Gayer-Anrson followed his tw brother 1904 to a ary reer, albe wh the Royal Army Medil Corps.
THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT: OBJECT FOC
[ptn id="attachment_536981" align="alignnone" width="620"] Gayer-Anrson (left) wh his tw brother, Tom (Cairo, 1912). Immediately toxited by the sights and sounds of Cairo—to a far greater extent than most of his Brish officer lleagu—Gayer-Anrson set about learng Arabic and the ctoms of Egypt.
GAYER-ANRSON CAT
In the Season then, Cairo me alive wh the smart-set of Amerin and Brish tourists wantg to immerse themselv the fad of Egyptology that had been igned part by the work of Flrs Petrie Giza, and the possibili of this receptive market did not pe Gayer-Anrson. Increasgly, Gayer-Anrson sought to live “à la mo orientale”, drsg—wh the nf of his own apartment ially— fe Arab cloth and jewelry.