Research Notes: The Dumas-Egerton Collection, of which this is part, was examined by Hermione Waterfield of Christie's in May 1984; see 'Part of the Nigerian Art Collected by Admiral Sir George Le Cler[c] Egerton on the Benin Expeditionof 1897 on Deposit at Maidstone Museum' (copy in RDF). The entry for this object reads: 'A cover of a Benin bowl, of shallow hemispherical form and made of three sections of ivory, the centre with cylindrical projection, four oblong projections about the border with pegged additions, all carved with strapwork, with two applied bronze bands over the main joins. 10 1/4 in. diam.' [JC 23 1 2002]
Archaological / Ethnographic
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Class: Vessel; Class: Divination Religion
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Object
Related Collections
Related collection: Field diary and photocopy of relevant sections of the collector's personal diary in PRM MS collections.