Round wooden lid for a box, with five 'foot-like' projections. The outside surface of the whole is covered with thin brass sheet decorated with various motifs. [JC 4/10/2001]
Additional Pitt Rivers Museum documentation: : [Acquisition entry] Sent to the Museum on 1 October 2001 by Simon Dumas as an addition to the Dumas-Egerton collection (PRM 1991.13) on long-term loan to the Museum since 1991; see RDF for related correspondence. [JC 4/10/2001]; Documentation: : See RDF for lists and notes.
Research Notes: The Dumas-Egerton Collection, of which this is part, was examined by Hermione Waterfield of Christie's in 1984, and a document, dated 7th December 1984, was produced with the title 'Part of the Nigerian Art Collected by Admiral Sir George Le Cler[c] Egerton on the Benin Expeditionof 1897 on Deposit at Maidstone Museum' (see RDF). The entry for this object reads: 'A Benin circular wood brass-covered lid for a bowl, with four projections about a central cylindrical knob, the brass beaten with various interlaced motifs on a stippled ground. 11 in. diam.' [JC 16 1 2002 / 23 1 2002]
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Class: Box
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Related collection: Field diary and photocopy of relevant sections of the collector's personal diary in PRM MS collections.