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Language: Bini
Relief plate
Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data
Cultural attribution
Edo
Object type
reliefs (sculptures)
Dimensions
202 x 383 x 30
mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 5242
Other number(s)
RJM 1902/19 (Convolute number)
Provenance and sources
where
Nigeria
historical: Kingdom
Benin
Africa -> West Africa ->
Nigeria
when
Auction in 1900
where
Bicester
who
William Downing Webster
- Auctioneers
Source(s)
Webster Catalogue of ethnological specimens
27
when
1902
where
London
who
J.C. Stevens - Contractors
Description
The collection donated by Rautenstrauch
from the estate of W. D. Webster and was apparently sold by the auctioneer
sold by the auctioneer J. C. Stevens
when
1902-03-06
where
Stevens' Auction Rooms,
London
who
J.C. Stevens - Auctioneers
Theodor Rautenstrauch (1873 -
1907) - Buyers
Source(s)
Cat. Unique Collection of Benin Bronzes. J.
C. Stevens, the 3rd day of June, 1902
when
1902-21-11
who
Theodor Rautenstrauch (1873 -
1907) - Donors
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde - Recipients
when
2022-15-12
where
Cologne
who
Stadt Köln
Bundesrepublik
Nigeria - Recipients
Description
This Benin court artwork will remain on loan to the museum
in the museum until it is physically restituted in the coming years.
in the coming years.
Source(s)
Agreement on the return of
Benin bronzes between the City of Cologne and the Federal Republic of
Nigeria
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