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The bronze plaque shown above was created in
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Italy
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No
Central Asia
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No
Arabia
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No
West Africa
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Yes
China
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No
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Cast bronze or brass plaques decorated in the characteristic style shown in the image are a well-known art form from the Kingdom of Benin — an African state that existed in parts of present-day Nigeria between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries C.E. Many of these so-called Benin Bronzes were seized from the Kingdom of Benin by a British occupation force in the late nineteenth century and are currently on display in museums in Great Britain.
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