Lower Niger IgboUkwu Bronze Bell Low-poly 3D model

The bell described is an ancient copper alloy artifact with a looped strap handle and a spherical clapper, cast using the lost-wax method and attributed to the 'Lower Niger Bronze Industry' style, a term coined by William Fagg in 1959. It resembles a human male head with notable facial features and frog depictions around the neck, likely part of shrine paraphernalia. The 'Lower Niger Bronzes' category includes diverse copper-alloy objects distinct from the major casting centers of Benin, Ife, and Igbo-Ukwu, with limited analysis and provenance details. The Igbo-Ukwu bronzes, discovered in 1938 and dated to 850 CE, represent the earliest known bronze casting in the region and the earliest copper alloy art in Sub-Saharan Africa, produced using the lost wax hollow casting technique.

Source: Omorogbe, Aigbe. Lower Niger (Igbo-Ukwu) Bronze Bell, Bronze-cast (lost-wax), Private collection, Benin City.

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