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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General view | Photographer: Dietrich Graf | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Salt cellar with lid
Ivory in unworked form, as well as ornate objects carved from ivory such as salt pots or spoons, were coveted trade products for the European market. Their production by West African artists began immediately after the arrival of the Portuguese on the West African coast in the second half of the 15th century. The lid of this salt jar is in the shape of a hemisphere with a second spherical jar on top. The sides are each formed by a Portuguese horseman. At the back is a Portuguese man with a manilla in his raised hand.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Salt cellar with lid
- Dimensions
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Weight: 2 kg
Height: 13 cm
Width: 8,5 cm
Depth: 8,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Ivory
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 4890 a,b
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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NigeriaBenin
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Description
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16th century, commissioned, probably in the Kingdom of Benin; before 1890 in the Königlich-Preußische Kunstkammer in the Königliches (now Neues Museum); transferred to the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde around 1890.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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