Nigeria, ca. 1550 – 1650
Copper alloy
Height 5 in (13cm)
Provenance: Admiral Brian Egerton, England Benin Punitive Expedition 1897
Philadelphia University Museum (Inv. no. AF2073 on reverse)
Julius Carlebach (1909 – 1964), New York
Ernst and Ruth Anspach Collection New York (Inv. no. 0924), acquired in 1962
New York Private Collection, acquired in 2001
Literature
Preston, George Nelson, Ernst Anspach, Ruth Anspach, and State University College at Potsdam, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, New York, October 1974, fig. 14
Grey Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Images of Power: The Royal Court of Benin, New York University, New York, 1981, p. 24, fig. 14
Exhibited
Potsdam, New York, Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, October 1974
New York, Museum of Primitive Art, African Tribal Sculpture from the Collection of Ernst and Ruth Anspach, November 1967 – February 1968
Notre Dame, Indiana, Museum of Notre Dame University, Anspach Collection, 17 March - 12 May 1968
New York, Grey Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Images of Power: The Royal Court of Benin, 23 January – 21 February 1981
A remarkable and important object with an ironclad provenance that has been both published and exhibited numerous times.
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Nigeria, ca. 1550 – 1650
Copper alloy
Height 5 in (13cm)
Provenance: Admiral Brian Egerton, England Benin Punitive Expedition 1897
Philadelphia University Museum (Inv. no. AF2073 on reverse)
Julius Carlebach (1909 – 1964), New York
Ernst and Ruth Anspach Collection New York (Inv. no. 0924), acquired in 1962
New York Private Collection, acquired in 2001
Literature
Preston, George Nelson, Ernst Anspach, Ruth Anspach, and State University College at Potsdam, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, New York, October 1974, fig. 14
Grey Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Images of Power: The Royal Court of Benin, New York University, New York, 1981, p. 24, fig. 14
Exhibited
Potsdam, New York, Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, October 1974
New York, Museum of Primitive Art, African Tribal Sculpture from the Collection of Ernst and Ruth Anspach, November 1967 – February 1968
Notre Dame, Indiana, Museum of Notre Dame University, Anspach Collection, 17 March - 12 May 1968
New York, Grey Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Images of Power: The Royal Court of Benin, 23 January – 21 February 1981
A remarkable and important object with an ironclad provenance that has been both published and exhibited numerous times.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
