Card/Transcription No.: 579-2

579. 2

The eyes are gilt.
The ears are pierced for ear-rings (now missing).
Fitted into the crown of the head is 'neck-piece' resembling
somewhat a crown bearing floral decoration, to which is attached
the lid bound with linen (see note attached).
The head and body are hollow and act as the vessel, now full of a
dried blackened (?) fatty substance probably originally of semi-liquid or liquid nature. Upon the chest are the cartouches of the
King and Queen (see note attached).
This animal-vase stands upon a trellis-work support resembling a
small table, having garland ornament (engraved and filled in with
pigments) round the upper part of the four sides. (See note
attached.)

The head, body and hind limbs; the 'neck-piece'; the two fore
limbs; the tail; the sa-symbol; and the trellis support; are made
out of separate pieces of semi-translucent calcite, dowelled &