Duck

Description Provenance Credit

Description Animals were popular motifs in the Geometric period. Bird ornaments often decorated horse trappings.

Provenance Dr. Hugo Weissmann, Boston [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1954, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1954

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9th century BCE (Geometric)

hollow-cast bronze
(Metal)

54.2400

2 3/8 x 3 x 1 1/8 in. (6.1 x 7.6 x 2.8 cm)