An important Benin Bronze
PlaqueofaCrocodile, Nigeria
16th to 17th century
H. 31cm
Provenance:
William Downing Webster, London
Pitt-Rivers Collection, acquired
on December 5th 1898
Mathias Komor, New York, USA
James G. Hanes Jr., North Carolina, USA
Publication:
Pitt-Rivers, Catalogues
of his Second Collection, 1882-1898,
Vol. 6, 1898, p. 1801
Antique Works of Art from Benin –
Collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers,
1900, plate 39, n° 295
Sotheby’s London, Primitive Art,
8th July 1974, lot 114
Felix von Luschan mentions this Benin
Plaque as an exceptionally beautiful
exemple of™this™theme™inšhisšpreeminent
publication: Die Altertümer von Benin,
1919, p. 273
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