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Language: Bini
Language: Bini

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Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
keys (hardware)
Dimensions
22 x 150 x 89 mm
Material/Technique
Copper alloy
Current location
Bundesrepublik Nigeria
Inventory number
RJM 43018
Other number(s)
RJM 1943/05 (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:
    Robbery
    when
    1897
    who
    Robert Allman
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Inheritance
    when
    1917
    where
    Rathmines, Dublin
    who
    Robert Allman - Legators
    Allman - Heirs
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Auction
    when
    1931-26-11
    where
    London
    who
    Auktionshaus Foster & Foster - Auctioneers
    Galerie Charles Ratton (1927) - Buyers
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    1944-23-03
    where
    Paris
    who
    Gurlitt, Hildebrand - Purchasing Agents
    Description
    Hildebrand Gurlitt was the intermediary who organised the organised the transport of the objects selected by museum director Martin Heydrich to Germany and who organised the financial transfer. financial transfer.
  • Restitution (cultural policy):
    Restitution
    when
    2022-15-12
    where
    Cologne
    who
    Stadt Köln
    Bundesrepublik Nigeria - Recipients
    Source(s)
    Agreement on the return of Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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