A 19thC Carved & Polychrome Painted Venetian Blackamoor Wall Torchère

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A 19thC Carved & Polychrome Painted Venetian Blackamoor Wall TorchèreOrigin: Italian, Venetian Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 34. 5 Depth: 5 Width: 8. 25 (all at extremities) The polychrome painted wooden torchre figure of a blackamoor, showing traces of the original gilding, modelled in standing pose with a turban and one arm aloft holding a spiral torch issuing fruit and flowers with orifice for a light fitting and standing on a rocky outcrop, being flat backed for wall mounting, and

having a shaped gallery back over a single frieze drawer with two brass knob handles

Fancy unto fancy

We’ve called him Rusty for obvious reasons

Only two of the teeth are missing

and Chaldean numerology

The two silhouettes that are annotated are that of Misses Julia and Flora Bradford both inscribed with sitter's name

described in the Collins Bartholomew company history as "a truculent Hungarian immigrant

George IV's wife

with explanatory text beneath warning of that ‘all persons liable to health

the wholes surviving from the zeniths of nineteenth century France

is situated in the former gatehouse of this gasworks in Leicester and deals with the history of domestic and industrial gas supply

The cheerful style of the painting is naive