About the Artwork
Gold Dust Container
between 19th and 20th century
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African
Asante
Bronze
Overall: 6 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches (15.9 × 16.5 cm)
Metalwork
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Dr. Lula Belle Robinson African Art Fund
67.129
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(K. Toure)
1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kan, M. Detroit Collects African Art. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 21- May 29, 1977, cat. no. 58, (fig. 37).
African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 24.
Quarcoopome, Nii. “The Akan Gold Weights Collection at the DIA,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1-4 (2017): p. 25 (fig. 1.23).
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Asante, African, Gold Dust Container, between 19th and 20th century, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dr. Lula Belle Robinson African Art Fund, 67.129.
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