This object was previously in the collection of the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum established in 1928 by Harry Geoffrey Beasley and his wife Irene Marguerite Beasley. The Beasley collection was distributed following Harry Beasley’s death in 1939. This piece was part of the donation made by Irene Beasley to the British Museum in 1944. The ornament was bought by Beasley at a Sotheby's auction; previously in the collection of A.R. Wright. It wass entered into the Beasley ledger on 31 October 1933.
Ornament; made from hammered sheet brass. In form of leopard; punched decorated of dotted circles throughout. Two holes through centre of body, one hole at tip of face.