Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Claudia Obrocki | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Dignitaries with companions
High-ranking dignitary with eben sword, lance, rectangular bell and six attendants
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Relief plaque
- Dimensions
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Weight: 22,4 kg
Height: 57,5 cm
Depth: 11 cm
Width: 40 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8054
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th century
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Former Possessors
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Description
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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; came into the possession of the dealer William D. Webster, 1897-1898; purchased by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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