Eroro, quadrangular altar bell depicting a Portuguese character
Nigeria, Kingdom of Benin. Late 19th or 20th century. Copper alloy, lost wax casting
Possibly produced by the Igun Eronmwon, the Royal Bronze-casting Guild in Benin City; unlikely to have been looted in 1897; collection of the dealer Ernst Ascher (1888-1953), then of the gallery “À la reine Margot” in Paris, where it was bought by the Geneva Ethnography Museum in July 1950
MEG ETHMU 022819
