Dish

Dish Lid

AF3674

From: Nigeria

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF3674
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yoruba
Provenience Nigeria
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Horseman | Chief | Attendants | Wife | Leopard | Snake
Description

Painted wooden circular dish with hinged lid supported by figures of horseman (chief) surrounded by smaller figures one on top of the other in pairs (4) representing wives and attendents. The lid is surmounted by a leopard holding a snake in its jaws.

Height 37 cm
Length 23 cm
Width 20.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from W. O. Oldman, 1912
Other Number 27035 - Dealer's Number

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