Lot Essay
A similar figure was previously in the Pitt-Rivers collection, Farnham, Dorset (Pitt Rivers, 1900, Pl.8, figs.41, 42)
16TH/17TH CENTURY
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A fine Benin bronze figure
16th/17th century
Of a warrior chief, standing with an implement in the left hand, wearing tall waisted headdress, wearing leopard claw and coral bead necklaces, a quadrangular bell about his neck, the elaborate tunic with band of interlaced ornament at the hem and leopard mask with claws, extensive laterite patina, (lower legs and right forearm deficient)
8¾in. (22cm.) high
16th/17th century
Of a warrior chief, standing with an implement in the left hand, wearing tall waisted headdress, wearing leopard claw and coral bead necklaces, a quadrangular bell about his neck, the elaborate tunic with band of interlaced ornament at the hem and leopard mask with claws, extensive laterite patina, (lower legs and right forearm deficient)
8¾in. (22cm.) high