Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa: July 2011–June 2012
Commemorative head of a defeated neighboring leader
late 15th–early 16th century
Artist Unidentified, African
Length x width: 20.3 x 15.9 cm (8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Copper alloy
Classification: Metalwork
Culture: Edo peoples, Benin Kingdom, Nigeria
Accession number: 2012.250
Provenance/Ownership History: By 1964 until at least 1970, Jay C. Leff (d. 2000), Uniontown, PA. 2012, gift of Robert Owen Lehman to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2012)
Robert Owen Lehman Collection