Goldweight Depicting a Pyramid Shape with Spiral

Arts of Africa

18th/early 20th century

Asante or related Akan-speaking peoples
Ghana
Coastal West Africa

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Asante
Title: Goldweight Depicting a Pyramid Shape with Spiral
Place: Ghana (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1700–1925
Medium: Copper alloy
Dimensions: 2.5 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm (1 × 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Britt Family Collection
Reference Number: 1978.890

William J. Dewey, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, exh. cat. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, 2003), p. 24, pl. 17; p. 58.

Knoxville, Tenn., Frank H. McClung Museum, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Jan. 10–May 18, 2003.

George Stoecklin (died 1997), Golfe-Juan, France, by 1978 [see correspondence with Jean Britt in curatorial file]; sold to Raymond E. Britt, Jr. (died 2004), Britt Family Collection, Chicago, Ill., 1978; given to the Art Institute, 1978.

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