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Trapezoidal, square bell without clapper and without suspension device. One side surface unpatterned (damaged), the other three have geometric patterns. One of the patterned sides also has a suggestion of an anthropomorphic (?) face with a protruding nose.
Height: 10 cm Width: 6,5 cm Depth: 6,5 cm Objektmaß: H: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Bronze, Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 21925
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
18th century - 19th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
Max von Stefenelli - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
18th century - 19th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or guild of brass casters in the Kingdom of Benin; presumably owned by Oba Ovonramwen in exile until ca. 1908; acquired by Max von Stefenelli around 1908, presumably from Oba Ovonramwen; donated by M. von Stefenelli to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, 1908.
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