Court of Benin; taken from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin by Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson (d. 1910); Rawson collection, until after 1919; Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, New York, until 1991
Royal Art of Benin from the Perls Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 16, 1992–September 13,1992
Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts fromNigeria
Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, May 9, 2007–September 3,2007
Musée du Quai Branly, October 2, 2007–January 6,2008
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, February 7,2008–May 25, 2008
Art Institute of Chicago, June 27, 2008–September 21,2008
Ezra, Kate. Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 272–273, no. 130.
Published Referencesbibliography von Luschan, F. 1919. Die Altertümer von Benin. Berlin and Leipzig: fig. 853.
"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. 130.
Plankensteiner, B. (Ed) "Benin Kings and Rituals. Court Arts from Nigeria" Exhibition Catalogue Museum fur Volkerkunde Wien. Wien: Snoeck Publishers, 2007, p.303 and 304, Cat. 48 (full view and detail)