Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Chair leg (Leg of a chair)
Chair leg in relief depicting a Portuguese with a sword and umbrella, another sword and a pistol on his belt. A cannon under the umbrella and in the lower field.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Chair leg (Leg of a chair)
- Dimensions
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Weight: 0,6 kg
Height: 40 cm
Width: 13,5 cm
Depth: 1,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Wood
, Metal
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 8069
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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19th 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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Change of legal title:
Acquisition-
Description
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19th century, commissioned in the Kingdom of Benin; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1898; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1898.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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