- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bead of agate. Perforated. [JC 4/10/2001]
- Cultural groups
- Edo
- Person
- Field collector George Le Clerc Egerton
- Field collector 1897 Benin City "Punitive Expedition"
- PRM source Dumas-Egerton Trust
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1897
- Date collected
- 1897
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1991, uncertain Loaned: 2001
- Materials and processes
- Material Agate Stone, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 47 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1991.13.41
- Research and responses
The Dumas-Egerton Collection, of which this is part, was examined by Hermione Waterfield of Christie's in 1984, and a document, dated 7th December 1984, was produced with the title 'Part of the Nigerian Art Collected by Admiral Sir George Le Cler[c] Egerton on the Benin Expedition of 1897 on Deposit at Maidstone Museum' (see RDF). The entry for this object (with 1991.13.40, 1991.13.42, 1991.13.43, 1991.13.44) reads: 'Four agate beads, two of cornelian, two of red jasper; and one bead of dark porphoritic stone, all of lenticular form.' [JC 16 1 2002 / 23 1 2002]
1991.13.41
Bead of agate. Perforated. [JC 4/10/2001]
On display
1991.13.41
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