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Portuguese

Portuguese with lance and bottle

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Object type
Relief plaque
Dimensions
Weight: 13,5 kg
Height: 48,5 cm
Width: 31 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8357

Provenance and sources

Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
Heinrich Bey - Collectors
Change of legal title:
Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), Royal Palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession after the conquest of the Kingdom of Benin; collected on behalf of the firm Bey & Co, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1899.
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa

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