Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of ArtFor more than 500 years, the artists of the West African kingdom of Benin created objects in brass, ivory, terracotta, and wood for use in divine kingship rituals, to adorn the royal palaces, and to identify the king, chiefs, warriors, and other officials at court. This volume presents a recent gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art of over 150 works of Benin sculpture, making the Museum's collection of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Benin art one of the most. |
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Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Kate Ezra No preview available - 1992 |
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16th-19th century Brass African Art Akenzua Altar Bell altar tableaus beads bell Ben-Amos Benin 16th-19th century Benin 19th century Benin art Benin City Blackmun bracelets Bradbury brass heads brasscasters cast brass Center for African century Ivory Christie's clappers collar coral-bead costume Court of Benin crocodile crown Cultural History Dark decorated depicted eben sword Esigie Eweka Ewuare Ex Collection Ezomo feathers figures Gift guild hip ornaments honor Igala Igbesanmwan Ijebu incised Joseph Nevadomsky king king's kingdom Klaus G kola nuts leopard London Lt.-General Augustus Luschan Metropolitan Museum motifs mudfish Museum of Art Museum of Cultural Nigeria Oba Ozolua Oba's objects Olokun Omada Osun Ozolua Paula Ben-Amos Perls collection Photograph plaques Portuguese priests queen mother rattle-staff regalia ritual roosters royal altar royal ancestral altars sacrifice sculptures Sotheby Town Chiefs Ugie Uzama waist pendants warriors wearing William Fagg worn Yoruba