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Edo

Plaque with Snake

Edo, 1500

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Edo

Plaque with Snake

Edo, 1500

Physical Qualities Copper alloy, 15 9/16 × 7 11/16 × 1 1/4 in. (39.5 × 19.5 × 3.2 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1958.58
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1958-present; JJ Klejman Gallery, by purchase, ? - 1958; Augustus Pitt Rivers by purchase, January 23, 1899 - ?; William Downing Webster, by purchase, 1898/9-1899
"Antique Works of Art from Benin," page 78, plate XXXIX, no.298.

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