Details
AN EGYPTIAN GLASS INLAY
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
With the fragmentary half face of a hetaira, with opaque white face, translucent brown elaborate curls hanging over her forehead, translucent amethyst eye with translucent blue outline and brow, on a brick red matrix
1 x 1/3 in. (2.5 x 1.4 cm.)
Provenance
Achille Groppi (1890-1949) collection, Switzerland, acquired 1920s-1940s; and thence by descent.
The Per-Neb Collection (Part II), Ancient Egyptian Glass Inlays; Christie's, London, 7 July 1993, lot 21.
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