About the Artwork
Chief's Finger Ring
between 1900 and 1950
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African
Asante
Gold and cire perdue
Overall: 1 7/8 × 2 3/16 inches (4.8 × 5.6 cm)
Jewelry
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
78.16
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Provenance
(Karl Heinz Krieg)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Leadership and Status Objects,” Bulletin of the DIA 91, no. 1-4 (2017): p. 35 (fig. 2.9).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Asante, African, Chief's Finger Ring, between 1900 and 1950, gold and cire perdue. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 78.16.
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