A Greek marble head of a Ptolemaic Princess or Isis
Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C.
Depicted gazing to her right, her centrally-parted hair bound in a fillet and falling in 'Libyan' corkscrew curls onto her neck, the face softly-modelled, 6cm high注脚Provenance:
Estate of Henri de France (1908-1999), Comte de Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 14 October 2008, lot 189.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 July 2009, lot 144.
Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired from the above sale.

Cf. a small marble bust of Berenike II, Cairo Museum acc. no. JE 39517, in S. Walker and P. Higgs (eds), Cleopatra of Egypt, from History to Myth, London, 2001, p. 49, no. 11.