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LOT 0264
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.
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