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Height: 32,3 cm Depth: 7 cm Width: 17,3 cm Weight: 2,9 kg
Material/Technique
Brass, copper alloy
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 27486
Provenance and sources
Production
where
Benin [kingdom]
Production
when
16th century
where
Nigeria
Benin
Collecting
who
H.E. Rogers - Collectors
Change of legal title: Acquisition
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), royal palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; owner between 1897 and 1908 currently unknown; acquired by William D. Webster through the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, 1909.
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