IMPORTANT PTOLEMAIC FUNERARY MASK made entirely of plaster-coated cardboard, painted in polychrome and gilded with gold leaf. The gilded female face is crowned with the traditional tripartite headdress, topped with a scarab beetle (the god Khepri). Various deities from the Egyptian pantheon are represented on the sides. Traces of ritual tar and bitumen. Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic period (323 to 30 BC) Height: 49.8 cm - Width: 29.4 cm - Depth: 29 cm (visible damage, missing parts and restorations, on a suitable metal base) Provenance: Stamp in blue ink presuming a customs import dated "VI-22" for June 1922 (?) Reputedly acquired on the Paris art market in the 1950s/1960s, rue des Saints-Pères. Private collection.