An Egyptian gesso-painted cartonnage mask of a female, the face painted in ochre with details of eyes and eyebrows in black, with blue headdress, mounted in a glass case -- 8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 4th-1st Century B.C.

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An Egyptian gesso-painted cartonnage mask of a female, the face painted in ochre with details of eyes and eyebrows in black, with blue headdress, mounted in a glass case -- 8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) high, Ptolemaic, 4th-1st Century B.C.

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