Consulter la cote et le prix de Benin Royal Bronze Crowned Queen Mother, Unknown 20h century

Description : Additional Information: A Benin bronze /brass figure of  ,queen mother .  ,Queen mother is represented in her full ceremonial regalia  ,. She holds a club or a scepter (?). , The age of this figure is unknown. What is sure is that the present , example was modeled after the original dating originally approximately 1550 1750 A.D.! Queen mothers were believed to have supernatural powers which could be used to aid their sons, the obas, and heads like this one were kept on altars in royal enclaves. Benin art is royal art, made to glorify the great king, or OBA, who is considered to have divine ancestry. The brasscasters guild historically worked primarily for the monarchy, with smaller pieces being available to chiefs. It 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 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. For much more information and superb examples, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art's ROYAL ART OF BENIN. 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. ,I have examined this piece and agree with the description. Niangi Batulukisi, PhD.
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