Gold Weight (abrammuo): Geometric Form
1800s
Maker Unknown
African Art
Gold Weight (abrammuo): Geometric Form, 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Copper alloy; overall: 2.4 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm (15/16 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hornung 1962.244 Geometric forms were the earliest shapes used for gold weights.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Implements
- Formatted Medium
- Copper alloy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 2.4 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm (15/16 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- African Art
- Accession Number
- 1962.244
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hornung
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - 1962, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 38, p. 117, color repr. p. 34.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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