A Hellenistic Marble Portrait Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, 3rd/2nd Century B.C.

European private collection, circa 18th Century (based on restoration techniques)

private collection, Paris, acquired on the Paris art market in the 1980s (Sotheby's, London, November 29th, 2017, no. 30, illus.)

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

This under-life-size head is likely to represent a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, such as Queen Arsinoe III, for instance; cf. Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 1998.23.10 (http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/74401) and Sotheby's, New York, December 12th-13th, 1991, no. 71.