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Gayer-Anderson cat
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The sculpture is known as the Gayer-Anderson cat after major Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson who, together with Mary Stout Shaw, donated it to the British Museum.WEB,weblinkConstruction
(File:Gayer-Anderson Cat in British Museum by Glenn Ashton.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Detail of the head)The statue is not as well preserved as it appears. X-rays taken of the sculpture reveal that there are cracks that extend almost completely around the centre of the cat's body, and only an internal system of strengthening prevents the cat's head from falling off. The repairs to the cat were carried out by Gayer-Anderson, who was a keen restorer of antiquities in the 1930s. When he bought it, the surface of the cat was "covered with a heavy coating of crystalline verdigris and crisp flakes of red patina" which he carefully chipped away.BOOK, Foxcroft, Louise, 2016, The Irish Pasha,weblink Unbound, 2014-12-14, 2016-03-24,weblink dead, The cat was manufactured by the lost-wax casting method, where a wax model is covered with clay and fired in a kiln until the wax flows out, and the hollow mould is refilled with molten metal. In this case the metal was 85% copper, 13% tin, 2% arsenic with a 0.2% trace of lead. The remains of the pins that held the wax core can still be seen using X-rays. The original metalworkers would have been able to create a range of colours on a bronze casting and the stripes on the tail are due to metal of a differing composition. It is also considered likely that the eyes contained stone or glass decorations.References
{{Reflist}}Further reading
- Clutton-Brock, J. The British Museum book of Cat. London: The British Museum Press, 2000.
- Warner, Nicholas. Guide to the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo. Cairo: Press of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2003.
- Foxcroft, Louise.Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of The Irish Pasha {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324231602weblink |date=2016-03-24 }}. London: Unbound, 2016.
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