This beautiful, finely cast small bronze gold weight dates to the nineteenth-century. Representing an antelope, the gold weight features what appears to be a rope or harness around the animal's neck. A similar example of Akan gold weight is described in Tom Phillips' publication, African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900 (page 66).
Estimated Period: 19th Century
Length: 4cm
Reference
Tom Phillips, African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900 (2010), p.66
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