A FINE BENIN BRONZE FIGURE FROM A PLAQUE, cast in high relief as a standing warrior wearing tall headgear with coral beads in relief on an incised ground, a feather to one side, a large bead on long cord pendent from each side, with cast leopard claw and coral bead necklaces, broad armbands, the skirt decorated with quatrefoils, crescents and stylised masks and with guilloche border, cast armlets, a leopard belt mask and coral bead anklets suspending tassels, holding an eben in the right hand, three vertical scarification marks to the torso, the background with incised quatrefoils on stippled ground, dark patina with traces of laterite dust, the fingers of one hand damaged, 17th century