Important Egyptian large limestone figure of a royal lady -
Later Ptolemaic Period, 2nd-1st Century BC – Height: 60.3 cm

Striding on a rectangular base, her arms held to her sides, and wearing a long close-fitting dress and a headdress that echoes the nemes, royal headcloth.

Provenance: collection of Jan van der Werff (1901-1988), Delft, acquired ca. 1950s, then by descent.

For related statues of the mid Ptolemaic and early Roman periods cf.
S. Albersmeier, Untersuchungen zu den Frauenstatuen des ptolemaeischen Aegypten, Mainz am Rhein, 2002, pls. 68a, 69a (Cleopatra of Egypt, Age of the Ptolemies, Brooklyn, 1988, cat. 28), 71ab, and 74a-d, statues in Brussels, Paris and Cairo respectively.