Catalogue card notes: "Bronze panel with male figure with choker- coral necklaces and elaborate skirt and holding a sceptre in right hand. Cast in one piece."
Bronze panel with male figure with choker, coral necklaces, elaborate skirt, and holding a sceptre in the right hand. Cast in one piece. Evidence of ?active bronze disease. A copper hook has been soldered onto back of panel.
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "25.69 | Benin / West Africa / Bronze panel with male figure with choker - coral necklaces & elaborate skirt and holding a sceptre in right hand. / Cast in one piece / Exhibited by Donor at Brit. Empire Exhibitions at Wembley 1925."
Red circular sticker on bottom right corner of card.
In January 2017, Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Agnese Benzonelli, UCL Institute of Archaeology, tested this idno using a portable XRF as part of a programme of base metal analysis of Benin material.
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Card reads "Exhibited by donor at British Empire Exhibition at Wembley 1925"
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Exhibited: Previously displayed in Drawer B under the Africa case, Maudsley Gallery, CUMAA
[dates unknown]
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Included in the Metal in Africa Exhibition
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The card and register reference to 'Benin' may refer to the wider historical Kingdom of Benin or Benin City, so both have been included with queries