Neo-Babylonian Agate Duck Weight

CIRCA 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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0264