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Scottish university claims Benin bronze bought for £750 is worth £500,000—but is that now really the case? : comparemela.com
Scottish university claims Benin bronze bought for £750 is worth £500,000—but is that now really the case?
Aberdeen University says its Head of an Oba was acquired in a way that it now considers “extremely immoral”
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Aberdeen University’s Benin bronze, which is being restituted to Nigeria, was bought at Sotheby’s in 1957 for £750. A paper prepared for the university’s governing body, released to
The Art Newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act, now values it at £500,000. The late-18th century head of an
oba (king) had been looted by British troops in 1897.
A university statement on 25 March recorded that
Head of an Oba had been acquired in Benin “in a way that we now consider to have been extremely immoral”. By the 1920s it was owned by Sydney Burney, a London dealer. A later owner was H.B. Bell-Syer, who sold it in 1957.
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