Egyptian Hetaira Half Mask mosaic glass inlay, Ptolemaic Period (ca. 300-50 BC); height cm 6 with support; Hetaira, young courtesan figure of the ancient New Comedy, in semi translucent turquoise matrix, with red, white and yellow canes for the wavy hair and ringlets. Provenance: The Gotha Precious Collection: property of a Swiss Collector; with Oswald Burchard, Zurich, until 1983; formerly part of the M. Hess Collection (Hotel Jura, Basel).