Pendant showing an Iyoba (Queen Mother) with a gong Edo peoples, Benin kingdom

Pendant showing an Iyoba (Queen Mother) with a gong Edo peoples, Benin kingdom, Nigeria, late 17th–early 18th century Ivory Length x width: 17.1 x 10.2 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.) Robert Owen Lehman Collection Provenance: Early 20th century, brought from the Kingdom of Benin to England. 1961, Colonel Albert Horton, England; February 6, 1961, Colonel Horton sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 152, sold for £ 880 to K. John Hewett (b. 1919 – d. 1994), London. 2012, promised gift of Robert Owen Lehman to the MFA.