An Egyptian Gypsum Plaster Head of a Woman, early Ptolemaic Period, circa 305-250 B.C.

probably a sculptor's model or votive head, wearing a rounded wig of echeloned curls leaving the ears uncovered, her finely-modeled idealizing face with long contoured cosmetic lines; mold-made, the concave back unworked.

Paul Delplace, Brussels, 1970s

chips and abrasions as shown, surface worn ( or appearing worn due to the casting process)
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Cf. A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Hilton Price, London, 1897, p. 398, fig. 3300, and B. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, Brooklyn, 1960, pl. 85, no. 90.