OLD MESOPOTAMIAN DUCK-SHAPED BEAD

Ca. 2900 - 2400 BC An Old Mesopotamian black stone bead of a sleeping duck. The bead is pierced through the middle for suspension.
Size: 32mm x 21mm; Weight: 15.4g
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collection, 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

300
Estimate: GBP 450 - 900