Court of Benin, taken from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin; [William D. Cutter, London, until 1897]; Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, UK, acquired by 1900; (Sotheby Parke-Bernet and Co., London, June 21, 1979, no. 147); 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
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