Digital Benin - Brooklyn Museum - 6_155628

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Digital Benin linked field	Institution field	Value
object id	ObjectID	155628
designation, object type	Title	Waist Pendant with Oba and Two Attendants
description	Description	Semicircular cast ornament depicting three figures in high relief, possibly lost-wax cast. The figures are dressed in skirted textured costumes with beaded high collars. Each wears a domed headdress with shoulder-length side flaps and a crown topped with dowel-like extension. Legs are adorned with multiple cast coral bead anklets. The edge of the ornament is finished with a row of small pierced circles. Back of plaque has the a cast-in image of a knife, possibly a maker's mark.
material	Medium	Copper alloy
dimensions	Dimensions	8 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/4 in (20.3 x 15.9 x 5.7 cm)
inscriptions	Inscriptions	"25601" painted in white on back
date made	Alpha Sort 2	mid-16th to early 17th century
date made	Begin Date	1550
production place	Geography	Place made: Benin City, Royal Court of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria, Africa
prior source	Credit Line	Gift of Beatrice Riese
provenance	Provenance	Until at least 1897, Benin Kingdom; 1897, probably taken from the Royal Palace during the British military raid and occupation of Benin City by an unidentified British agent, possibly Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, London; before 1940, collection of Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton; by 1954, acquired by Mrs. Webster (Margaret F.) Plass, London; by 1960, acquired by Julius Carlebach, New York; 1960, acquired from Julius Carlebach by Beatrice Riese, New York; 1998, gift of Beatrice Riese to the Brooklyn Museum.
ethnic attribution	Alpha Sort	Edo
ethnic attribution	Maker	Edo
exhibition history	Exhibition History	Brooklyn Museum, "Double Take: African Innovations," Long-term Installation, October 29, 2014 - March 19, 2017. Brooklyn Museum, "African Innovations," Long-term Installation, August 12, 2011 - September 28, 2014. Brooklyn Museum, “Arts of Africa,” Long-term Installation, May 24, 2001- June 26, 2011. Brooklyn Museum, "Masterworks of African Art from the Collection of Beatrice Riese," March 24 - September 10, 2000. University Museum, Philadelphia, PA, "African TribalSculpture," April - September 1956. Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of African Art, " October 21, 1954 - January 2, 1955.
bibliography	Published References	Siegmann, William C., Kevin D. Dumouchelle and Joseph Adande. African Art: a Century at the Brooklyn Museum. New York, NY: Prestel, 2009, cat. 48, inside front cover, 138-9. Newsweek (Jul 25 1960): 104, illus. Plass, Margaret. African TribalSculpture. Philadelphia, PA: University Museum, 1956, cat. no. 16-c. Brooklyn Museum. Masterpieces of African Art Exhibition (exh. cat.). New York, NY, 1954, 42, cat. no. 71.
	Object Number	1998.38
	Sort Number	1998 38