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Portuguese on horseback

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Sculpture
Dimensions
Height: 29 cm
Width: 8 cm
Depth: 9,5 cm
Weight: 0,45 kg
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 19213

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Benin [kingdom]
  • Production
    when
    19th century
    where
    Nigeria
    Benin
  • Collecting
    who
    Paul Bieger - Former Possessors
    Hermann Held - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Commissioned by the Guild of Woodcarvers in the Kingdom of Benin before 1897 or during the interregnum after 1897; ownership before 1897 currently unknown; possibly looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owned by Hermann Held before 1905; sold to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, 1905.
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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