Fon
Personal Ornament
Fon, 1857
Scroll
Fon
Personal Ornament
Fon, 1857
Physical Qualities
silver alloy, horn, 24 H x 8 W x 5 D cm.
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object Number
2002.112
In the form of an animal horn with filigree decoration, especially around the center and at each end with a rosette ornament on the lid and a bird and two-headed snake on one side.
African Reinstallation, "Conspicuous Consumption," April 2015, Wurtzburger Galleries, BMA, Kathryn Gunsch.
Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism", New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024, ill p. 138.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
On View: Wurtzburger, Gallery
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