The Gayer-Anrson Cat, Brish Mm

Contents:

• THE GAYER-ANRSON T
• THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT
• BASTET, GAYER-ANRSON CAT
• GAYER-ANRSON: THE MAN BEHD THE CAT
• WONRFUL THGS ARTHOMEARTSHOPARTICLSERVICMMSVIOSMOREUSE TAB TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE MENU EMS.REPRODUCTN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARTWORK BY NATALIE ALL POSTSPHOTOGRAPHYARTARTICLTRANSLATNSEGYPTOLOGYSEARCHLOG / SIGN UPNATALIE WATSONMAR 18, 20201 M READTHE GAYER-ANRSON CAT, BRISH MM
• THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT: OBJECT FOC
• GAYER-ANRSON CAT

THE GAYER-ANRSON T

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.

THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT

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 Gayer-Anrson Cat.

BASTET, 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. 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.

GAYER-ANRSON: THE MAN BEHD THE CAT

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.

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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.

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.

THE GAYER-ANRSON CAT: OBJECT FOC

Forever a rtls spir, Gayer-Anrson followed his tw brother 1904 to a ary reer, albe wh the Royal Army Medil Corps. [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.

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.

GAYER-ANRSON CAT

Increasgly, Gayer-Anrson sought to live “à la mo orientale”, drsg—wh the nf of his own apartment ially— fe Arab cloth and jewelry. When Fuad beme kg followg Egyptian Inpennce 1922, Gayer-Anrson acpanied him on a royal tour of the provc, but he retired om the Egyptian Government 1923, at the age of forty-two, to “mune wh bety”, ncentrate on his antiqu bs, and wre articl on artistic and archaeologil subjects for magaz. The sourc of some of the objects were qutnable, however, perhaps none more so than that associated wh the villao “old iend” om Saqqara who arrived at Gayer-Anrson’s flat one day October 1934 wh a large bundle wrapped cloth.

Insi, of urse, was the exceedgly rare and betiful t bronze which was to bear Gayer-Anrson’s name wh the prized llectn of the Brish Mm. By the mid-1930s, Gayer-Anrson’s health was clg, and he began to ntemplate returng to England, and to the Ltle Hall Lavenham, which he had bought 1924. Much of his llectn was to rema the refully rtored rooms of the Gayer-Anrson Pasha Mm of Oriental Arts and Crafts when, 1942, he returned to live permanently Lavenham, and the mm n still be vised today.

One fal honor was btowed on this extraordary man 1943, when Kg Faro ma him a lewa (major-general) rryg the tile of pasha, and Gayer-Anrson ma one last trip to Cairo November 1944, to formally hand back the Be al Kretilya and s treasur to the Egyptian people. The Gayer- Anrson Cat is a life-size st ma of pper alloy reprentg the female t y Bastet.