Folk Magic: A Rare & Early Dried Cat Head sub-Curios A wonderful survival

A wonderful survival

Qashgai tribes make these lovely rugs and many of them are collected for transport in the town of Shiraz in southern Iran

The Smaller:

If this isn’t Mr Jacobs

Folk Magic: A Rare & Early Dried Cat Head sub-Curios A wonderful survivalOrigin: British Period: Seventeenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1600 1700 Height: 2. 5 inches (with neck) Length: 4 inches The well preserved mummified head and neck with in tact teeth, having some remaining coloured hair. Condition is good, given age and fragility, though there is one medium sized hole to the top of the skull; the whole however remains in good stable order. According to mediaeval superstition, old shoes, bottles, and less