Photographer: Jörg von Bruchhausen | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Vessel
The plait pattern of the vessel suggests a woven model. The snakes and crocodiles refer to Olokun, the god of the sea. It probably comes from one of his shrines in the royal palace.
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Object type
Vessel
Dimensions
Weight: 2.850 g
Height: 41,2 cm
Diameter: 7,1 cm
Height: 41,2 cm
Diameter: 7,1 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 9960
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
18th century-19th century.
where
Nigeria [Land]
Benin [Königreich]
who
William Downing Webster (de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$Begin@5a425b39 - de.fiz.ddb.model.ddbobject.WhenType$End@320e51b) - Collectors
Description
Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon brass foundry guild in the Kingdom of Benin in the 18th or 19th century; probably looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; in unknown possession between Feb. 1897 and 1899; acquired by the Museum of Ethnology from William D. Webster, 1899.
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