Benin plaque withdrawn from auction after curator raises provenance questions

The increasingly contentious issue of selling Benin works of art at auction raised its head again last week after an ancestral plaque catalogued as 16th or 17th century was withdrawn from an East Sussex sale.

The works created by the Edo people in the Kingdom of Benin in modern-day Nigeria are deemed highl…

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