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Language: Bini
Language: Bini

Altar stool

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
stools (seating furniture)
Dimensions
370 x 355 x 318 mm
Material/Technique
Wood; pigment; binder, organic
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 53293
Other number(s)
RJM 1967/12 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Nigeria
    historical: Kingdom Benin
    Africa -> West Africa -> Nigeria
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Not clarified
    who
    Stolper Galleries (München) - Recipients
  • Restitution (cultural policy)
    when
    2022-15-12
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Stadt Köln
    Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
    Description
    This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years. in the coming years.
    Source(s)
    Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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