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Benin [kingdom]
Top view | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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King Ozolua (?)
Today, the depiction is interpreted as an image of King Ozolua (ca. 1481 - 1504), who also appears on 18th century ivory carvings with the unusual square headdress and long chain armour.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Relief plaque
- Dimensions
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Weight: 20,1 kg
Height: 53 cm
Depth: 5,8 cm
Width: 30 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8209
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th century
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Eduard Schmidt - Collectors
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Description
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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 by Consul Eduard Schmidt, employee of the Woermann line, between 1897 and 1898 in the territory of later colonial Nigeria; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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