An elegant figure in the sitting-room
GE-C comments:
"That's a proper blackamoor figure. You would have found that in grand houses. The Venetians liked these and made them from the 1750s - this one is late Victorian, there ought to be a pair. They should be a pair looking at each other.
"The black and white married couple on the table - they started to be made when black and white people married. I got it off a table in car boot."
From the collection of George Eleady-Cole
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Photo by Glynn Griffiths
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"That's a proper blackamoor figure. You would have found that in grand houses. The Venetians liked these and made them from the 1750s - this one is late Victorian, there ought to be a pair. They should be a pair looking at each other.
"The black and white married couple on the table - they started to be made when black and white people married. I got it off a table in car boot."
From the collection of George Eleady-Cole
Please comment in our debate section
Photo by Glynn Griffiths
Copyright: richarddnorth.com/archived-sites/theblackhistorymuseum
Image number: 5137