BENIN OBJECT 3, NIGERIA
Photographs © Tim Hamill
BENIN, OBJECT 3, 17.5" high, $1200, Nigeria
Although similar to many older works, this is a 20th C. piece and was probably
made to be sold. It was
sculpted by hand, then cast in bronze by the lost wax process.
Pieces like this were placed on ancestral altars.
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