id:			160767
accession number:	1999.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.1
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:38.477000

Plaque, 1500s–1600s. Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Ẹdo peoples, members of the Igun Eronmwon (royal brasscasters) guild. Copper alloy; overall: 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1999.1

title:				Plaque
title in original language:	
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creation date:			1500s–1600s
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1699
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Ẹdo peoples, members of the Igun Eronmwon (royal brasscasters) guild
technique:	Copper alloy
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Commissioned from the Igun Eronmwon
	date: possibly 1500s-1600s.
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	by descent to Ọba Ovọnramwẹn (Ovọnramwẹn Nogbaisi, [c. 1857–1914; r. 1888–97], Royal Palace, Benin City
	date: 
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	sent to England by Sir Ralph Moor following the Siege of Benin (1897)
	date: 1897
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->British Museum, Charles Hercules Read, and Ormonde M. Dalton. 1899.<em> Antiquities from&nbsp;</em></li></ul><div><!--block--><em>the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa</em>. London: British Museum. (preface,&nbsp;<br>unpaginated)&nbsp;</div><ul><li><!--block-->Provenance reported by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash gallery (“as “Brought back to England by&nbsp;</li></ul><div><!--block-->the British Punitive Expedition (1897)) – undated letter on gallery letterhead, Curatorial File</div>
			
			
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	to the British Museum by gift from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
	date: 
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			* <div><!--block-->British Museum, Charles Hercules Read, and Ormonde M. Dalton. 1899. <em>Antiquities from <br>the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa</em>. London: British Museum. (preface,&nbsp;<br>unpaginated)</div>
			
			
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	British Museum, London, until 1950 as no. 98/1-5/43
	date: 1897-1950
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->British Museum, Charles Hercules Read, and Ormonde M. Dalton. 1899. <em>Antiquities from&nbsp;</em></li></ul><div><!--block--><em>the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa</em>. London: British Museum. (preface,&nbsp;<br>unpaginated)&nbsp;</div><ul><li><!--block-->Provenance reported by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash gallery – undated letter on gallery, Curatorial File</li></ul><div><!--block-->letterhead&nbsp;<br>• Letter of January 13, 1999 from Anna Gaudion on British Museum letterhead, Curatorial File</div>
			
			
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	(Sydney Burney, London, as sales agent
for the British Museum, 1950, sold to Kent-Bragaline, Inc.; Edward A. Bragaline, New York City, NY)
	date: 1950-by at least 1963
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->Provenance reported by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash gallery– undated letter on gallery letterhead, Curatorial File</li><li><!--block-->Letter of January 13, 1999 from Anna Gaudion on British Museum letterhead, Curatorial File</li></ul>
			
			
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	Edward A. Bragaline, New York City, NY, sold to private collectors
	date: 
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			* <ul><li><!--block-->Provenance reported by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash gallery – undated letter on gallery&nbsp;</li></ul><div><!--block-->letterhead, Curatorial File<br>Listed and illustrated in Knoedler &amp; Co. New York, NY (Lot 48, November 6th-23rd, 1963)</div>
			
			
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	(Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1999
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Invoice (2-1-1999), receipts, etc (Curatorial File) – as MI&amp;N 1583</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1999-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Museum+of+American+Folk+Art%22">Museum of American Folk Art</a>. <em>Twentieth Century Masters from the Bragaline Collection for the Benefit of the Museum of Early American Folk Arts</em>. New York: M. Knoedler, 1963
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 102, fig. 48
	url:		https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00mkno/page/n101/mode/2up

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Benin Bronze Plaque, Rembrandt Print, Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” March 12, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4240

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 27, p. 84 - 85
	url:		

	Gunsch, Kathryn Wysocki. <em>The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument. </em>London : Routledge, Taylor &amp; Francis Group, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 152; reproduced: p. 162, fig. 2A
	url:		

	Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 34.
	url:		

	<em>Digital Benin, </em>Markk Museum Am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Kunste der Welt<em>, (</em>Last Updated: 2021-02-13)
	page number: 	ID 160767
	url:		https://digitalbenin.org/catalogue/8_160767

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