Egyptian Hetaira Half Mask mosaic glass inlay
Ptolemaic Period (ca. 300-50 BC); height cm 3; length cm 1,3; Hetaira, young courtesan figure of the ancient New Comedy, in olive green matrix with opaque red, white and blue canes for the wavy hair and ringlets. Provenance: The Gotha Precious Collection: property of a Swiss Collector; with Oswald Burchard, Zurich, until 1983; formerly part of the M. Hess Collection (Hotel Jura, Basel).