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Container with lid

Carved wooden box with lid. Depiction of a king (Oba) and a Portuguese man on the lid.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Container with lid
Dimensions
Weight: 0,2 kg
Weight: 0,3 kg
Height: 3,4 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,8 cm
Height: 4,5 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 7,8 cm
Weight: 0,5 kg
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 23976 a,b

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    William John Ansorge (1850 - 1913-10-31) - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin in the 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown ownership after Feb. 1897; acquired in a village near Benin City by W.J. Ansorge before 1905; auctioned by J.C. Stevens, 1909.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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