An Egyptian Bronze Figure of a Cat, 21st/26th Dynasty, 1075-525 B.C.

seated with the tail curled around to the forepaws, and wearing an incised neck-cord, the small head with finely modeled eyes and erect ears with striated markings. 

Willy Dreyfus (1885-1977)
then by inheritance

generally good, end of tail chipped off, surface somewhat worn and abraded in areas , with slight dents and encrustation, proper left ear chipped, ancient tenons replaced by modern pins.
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Lolo Sarnoff (1916-2014) was a collector, philanthropist, and accomplished sculptor, one of the first to make light sculptures combining fiber optics with plexiglass. She came from an unusually distinguished heritage of collecting and connoisseurship. Her father was the Frankfurt banker and art collector Willy Dreyfus (1885-1977). Her mother Martha, née Koch (1892-1965), also a sculptor and the subject of portraits by Vlaminck and Kokoschka, remarried in 1945 a friend from her youth, the legendary art collector Robert von Hirsch (1883-1977). His collection of paintings and works of art was sold in a landmark sale at Sotheby’s London in 1978, spanning six days, with fifty-three auction records set.