Palace of the Oba, Kingdom of Benin, 17th century-1897;
With William Downing Webster, Bicester, Oxfordshire and London, by October 15, 1898;
Purchased from Webster by Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), Rushmore, Wiltshire, England, October 15, 1898-1900;
By descent to his son, Alexander Edward Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1855-1927), Rushmore, Wiltshire, England, 1900-1925;
By descent to his son, Captain George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966), Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, England, 1925-probably the 1950s;
With J. J. Klejman, New York, by November 1957;
Purchased from J. J. Klejman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
Published Referencesbibliography Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, Antique Works of Art from Benin (Published Privately, 1900), 54, (repro., plate 27, fig. 179).
Felix von Luschan, Die Altertümer von Benin (Berlin and Leipzig: Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger, Walter De Gruyter & Vo, 1919), 109-110, 128, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 253, (repro.).
Franco Monti, Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’art, vol. 7, les arts primitive (Paris: Hachette, 1964), 1372, (repro.).
Sir John Rothenstein, ed., New International Illustrated Encyclopedia of Art, vol. 1 (New York: Greystone Press, 1967), 77, (repro.).
Michael Batterberry and Ariane Ruskin, PrimitiveArt (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973), 143-44, (repro).
Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 240-41, (repro.).
Richard L. Anderson, Art in PrimitiveSocieties (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979), 136-37, (repro.).
Philip J.C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982), 2.1.3.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 228-29, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 84, (repro.).
Joyce M. Youmans, “African Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,” African Arts 33, no. 4 (Winter 2000), 41, 43, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 243, 245, (repro.).
Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument (New York: Routledge, 2018), 227.