Court of Benin, taken from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin; Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, UK, acquired by 1900; (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 14, 1990, no. 56); Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, New York, until 1991
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