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Roman period bronze figurine of a cat and mouse - OF.098
Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: 100
AD
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
2.4" (6.1cm) high
x 2.15" (5.5cm) wide
Collection: Roman Antiquities
Medium: Bronze
£5,000.00
Location: Great Britain
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| Description |
A charming figurine of a cat capturing a mouse,
this playful image was likely to have either been a
child’s toy, or a cheeky private ornament of a
person's domestic environment.
Cats capturing mice would have been
commonplace in Rome, and this figurine may
simply be an image drawn from everyday life. It
could otherwise be, however, a pictorial
representation of Aesop’s fable of “The Cat and
the Mice”.
The Cat and the Mice is a fable attributed to
Aesop of which there are several variants. The
Greek version of the fable recorded by Babrius
concerns a cat that pretends to be a sack
hanging from a peg in order to deceive the mice.
The moral of the fable was to avoid being conned
by the innocent airs of a deceitful creature.
- (OF.098)
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