Dit tafereel stelt waarschijnlijk een deel van een inhuldigingsceremonie voor van een Oba. De figuur in het midden zou een priester voorstellen die op het punt staat een haan te offeren. De rijk uitgedoste figuur moet de Oba voorstellen. De helpers aan we
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Prof. Sanders heeft dit object verworven in 1967 van galerie Jacques Kerchache, Parijs.
' Piet Sanders (1912-2012) and his wife Ida Sanders (1915-2010) donated two Benin objects. An idiophone, or clapper, in the shape of a bronze bird on a staff (WM-73123) to the Wereldmuseum in 1998 and a brass platform with a group of figures (AM-673-35) to the Afrika Museum in November 2007. The 2007 donation had been originally offered for donation to the Wereldmuseum in 1998 but the offer was later withdrawn and instead it was given to the Afrika Museum as the relationship between Sanders and the Wereldmuseum had greatly deteriorated due to the museum’s perceived lack of interest in African collections at that time.'
'The couple bought the brass group of figures (AM-673-35) from the influential and controversial art dealer Jacques Kerchache (1942-2001) in Paris around 1967. Kerchache was a noted French art dealer for about twenty years with a gallery in Paris from 1965 to 1980, and also one of the main initiators of the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac through his friendship with president Jacques Chirac (Corbey 2000). He authored a number of books about art from different continents, including Africa (Viatte 2020, Bruno Mignot 2002-2020). However, his methods of acquiring and presenting artefacts have been the subject of some critique. Donation documentation from the Wereldmuseum shows that someone called ‘Keita’ gave this artwork a date of 18th century. According to ‘Van Rijn’ - likely to be Guy van Rijn, an African art consultant - it is of later manufacture.'
(Excerpt from Provenance no. 2 'The Benin Collections at the National Museum of World Cultures' written by Rosalie Hans with Annette Schmidt, 27-01-2021).
For more information about the provenance, see <a href="https://issuu.com/tropenmuseum/docs/2021_provenance_2__benin__e-book" target="_blank"> Provenance #2 – the Benin collections at the National Museum of World Cultures </a> (NB: Issuu uses cookies).