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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Dietrich Graf | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Vessel
Two snakes holding a human in their mouths form the handles of this vessel. On its neck are two courtiers holding a medicine horn and a staff and a dog on a lead; in between are depictions of snails. A skull and a tortoise can be seen on the lid. The man-devouring snakes are images of the king's power, while the tortoise and the dogs refer to Ogun, the god of war, to whom these animals are sacrificed.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Vessel
- Dimensions
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Weight: 3,65 kg
Height: 25,5 cm
Depth: 18,5 cm
Width: 21 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass, copper alloy, Iron, iron
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 20300
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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18th cent.
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where
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NigeriaBenin
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Collecting
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who
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Theodor Glücksmann - Former Possessors
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Description
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18th century, commissioned by the Igun Eronmwon or Guild of Brass Casters in the Kingdom of Benin; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; possibly owned by Sir Ralph Moor until ca. 1905; probably auctioned at Stevens' Auction Rooms Ltd, London (J.C. Stevens) ca. 1905; gift of Theodor Glücksmann to the Royal Museum of Ethnology Berlin, 1905.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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