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Description : Additional Information: A Benin bronze / brass figure representing a Rooster. This is a replica of ancient bronze figures made  ,to glorify the great king  ,OBA in Benin. Oba was considered to have divine ancestry. The brasscasters guild historically worked primarily for the monarchy, with smaller pieces being available to chiefs. This tradition has been in existence since the fifteenth or sixteenth century. Most castings are brass (an alloy of copper and zinc with traces of other minerals.) although some are made of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin with traces of other metals.). Without doing an analysis on each piece, it is not possible to know the content. Benin castings were all made by the lost wax technique, which produces one-of-a-kind pieces. A core of clay is covered with wax, which is then carved into the exact shape which the artist wants the finished piece to have. Additional wax ",",pipelines",", are made for the wax to exit and gases to escape. The wax is then covered with a layer of fine clay, and with succeeding layers, each coarser than the previous one. The mold is then heated, which melts the wax and fires the clay into a solid mold. The empty space is filled by pouring in molten brass. After the piece cools, the clay mold is broken, revealing the metal piece ready for polishing. , Recommended Reading: , Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Antique Works of Art From Benin, 1900 , Hagen, Dr. K., Altertumer von Benin, Jahrbuch der Hamburgischesen  ,Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, V. XVII, 1900. H. Ling Roth, Great Benin, Its Customs, Art and Horrors, 1903 (1968). Dark, P. J. C., W. &, B. Foreman, Benin Art,1960. Dark, P. J.C., An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology, 1973. Ben-Amos, P. The Art of Benin, 1980. Freyer, B., Royal Benin Art, 1987. Ezra, K., Royal Art of Benin, The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. Duchateau, A., Benin, Royal Art of Africa from the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Vienna, 1994. Anitra Nettleton (Ed), Nigeria Art. The Meneghelli Collection, 2002.  , I have examined this piece and agree with the description. Niangi Batulukisi, PhD.  ,
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