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Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 9947
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Collecting
who
William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), royal palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owner between 1897 and 1899 currently unknown; acquired by William D. Webster through the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, 1899.
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