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, after 1900; (Sotheby's, London, July 15, 1975, no. 183); Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, New York, until 1991Court of Benin Objects in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"ROYAL ART OF BENIN. The Perls Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Kate Ezra. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York 1992 Fig. 4