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LOT 0270

Neo-Babylonian Agate Duck Weight

700-600 B.C.

1 in. (4.76 grams, 23 mm).

Carved in banded agate so that the head and upper back are in opaque white stone, the rest in translucent orange-tan stone.

Provenance

Acquired in 1996.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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LOT 0270

Neo-Babylonian Agate Duck Weight

Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)

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