BENIN BRONZE SWORD - image-1

Lot 195 Dα

BENIN BRONZE SWORD

Auktion 1129 - Übersicht Brussels
09.04.2019, 14:00 - African and Oceanic Art
Schätzpreis: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Ergebnis: 2.232 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

BENIN BRONZE SWORD
Nigeria

62.5 cm. high

Provenienz

W. D. Webster, Bicester, no.6936
Lt.Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers, Farnham, Dorset
Thomas Alexander, St. Louis and New York
Merton Simpson, New York

Literaturhinweise

Webster, W.D., "Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens", Bicester, 1899, catalogue 21, no. 6.
Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F., "Antique works of art from Benin", London, 1900, plate XLIV, fig. 339.