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Altar group
Altar group with two leopards (presumably a third broken off) and two elephants with trunk hands. Two fish and two crocodiles and three stone blades on the top of the base. Two trunk hands and three bull heads at the front of the base.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Plastic
Dimensions
Objektmaß: H insges.: 15 cm L: 25 cm B: 29 cm H des Sockels: 8,5 cm
Objektmaß: 16 x 31 x 27,5 cm
Gewicht: 9 kg
Objektmaß: 16 x 31 x 27,5 cm
Gewicht: 9 kg
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8328
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
18th century-19th century.
where
Nigeria [Land]
who
William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Collectors
Description
Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 18th or 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1899; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1899.
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