Context (Display)
Included in the Metal in Africa Exhibition
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Presumed taken on the British Colonial Military Campaign on Benin, February 1897. There is no information on how Clarke acquired this object, but given that such objects on the market in the early twentieth century reached Britain through the Expedition, and the likely sale room or auction acquisition, this is presumed to be the most likely route.
Event Date 2/1897
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Lent by Louis Clarke for exhibition in the Nigerian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley Park, London, 23 April 1924 to 31 October 1925. The Nigerian Pavilion featured Nigerian artists as living displays, historic material and a replica altar from the Oba, Aiguobasinwin Ovonramwen, Eweka II, which featured painted wooden representations of the original bronze and ivory artworks.

Event Date 23/4/1924
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes: "Bronze panel with male figure with choker- coral necklaces and elaborate skirt and holding a sceptre in right hand. Cast in one piece."

Event Date 1925
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "25.69 | Benin / West Africa / Bronze panel with male figure with choker - coral necklaces & elaborate skirt and holding a sceptre in right hand. / Cast in one piece / Exhibited by Donor at Brit. Empire Exhibitions at Wembley 1925."
Red circular sticker on bottom right corner of card.
Event Date 1925
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Previously displayed in Drawer B under the Africa case, Maudsley Gallery, CUMAA, 1990- November 2015.

Label in gold script on the glass drawer top noted Benin Plaque/ A bronze panel depicting a male figure adorned with choker coral necklaces, an elaborate skirt and holding a sceptre in his right hand. Cast in one piece, Benin/ Nigeria. Clarke Gift/ 1925.69.

Event Date 1990
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
A copper hook has been soldered onto back of panel, possibly for display
Event Date 10/5/2001
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Analysis)
In January 2017, Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Agnese Benzonelli, UCL Institute of Archaeology, tested this idno using a portable XRF as part of a programme of base metal analysis of Benin material.
Event Date 27/1/2017
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
Photograph attached to rear of catalogue card.
Event Date 19/8/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2022.5433 | Remedial
Event Date 4/10/2022
Author: Kirstie French

Context (Analysis)
Analysed using XRF instrumentation by Dr Agnese Benzonelli, University of Cambridge, as part of research by Prof. Marcos Martinon-Torres and Dr Agnese Benzonelli into Benin material at MAA
Event Date 13/3/2023
Author: Flo Sutton

Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum (UCM), 25/7/2023 to 7/1/2024, Enslavement & Resistance: Cambridge & the Black Atlantic
Event Date 25/7/2023
Author: rachel hand