bell
- Museum number
- Af1956,21.1
- Description
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Bell; lost-wax cast in brass. Quadrangular in form with leopard's face in low relief on front panel. Iron clapper suspended from hole at top.
- Production date
- 16thC - 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.70 centimetres
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Weight: 1047 grammes
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Width: 10 centimetres
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Depth: 11.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1956:
'Brass cast bell of square section with flaring mouth; rather crude work.,
[BENIN, S.NIGERIA (W.B.F.)]
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1970-1973, London, Museum of Mankind, Divine Kingship in Africa
1993-1997, London, Museum of Mankind, Great Benin: a West African Kingdom
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Acquisition notes
- Af1956,21.1 and 2 were given by Mrs Trew at the same time as she sold Af1956,20.1 to the BM.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,21.1
