Container with lid

late 18th century

Benin Kingdom

Nigerian

Ivory

3 3/4 in. (9.53 cm)

Diam.: 3 1/8 in.

Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company

81.17.499

Provenance: [Robert Stolper, New York]; sold to Katherine White, Seattle, Washington, 1961; bequeathed to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1981

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryCleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, July 10 - Sept. 1, 1968 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Oct. 10 - Dec. 1, 1968). Text by William Fagg. Cat. no. 143 (as Cylindrical Box).

Published ReferencesJoice, Gail, Michael Knight, and Pamela McClusky, Ivories in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1987, no. 19, pp. 26-27

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