RARE Antique Blackamoor - Same at Italian Embassy in Cairo

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RARE Antique Blackamoor - Same at Italian Embassy in Cairo:
$405.00

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Fantastic Blackamoor Nubian Figurine
cast metal and cold painted with striped shorts.
MAJOR ACTOR IN ORIENTALIST DEPICTIONSVery good condition. Felt on base has comeungluedbut that allows you to see the label inside.

For sale is this fantastic sculpture by Petites Choses made in1985. BLACKAMOOR Nubian with ALL 3 Bird Cages.

Mounted ona brass-finish base that has a felt backing.

The underside of the basecarries the original Petites Choses U.S.A. gold foil label.

This is a nice sculpture representing Black Americana.

He measures about 5\" tall and is 4.75\" wide and the base measures 2.75\" in diameter.

Blackamoorfigures (Italianmoretto, moretti) are depictions ofdark-skinnedAfricansused in sculpture, jewelry, armorial designs and decorative art.

Jewelry and decorative arts:As jewelry, such figures usually appear in antiqueVenetian(though nowadays they can be made anywhere)earrings,bracelets,cuff links, andbrooches. Some contemporary craftsmen continue to make individual pieces, but it is rare because of modern issues with the depiction of dark-skinned people as \"exotic\" and decorative.The blackamoor is typically male, depicted with a head covering, usually aturban, and covered in rich jewels andgold leaf. They are typicallyenamelled, carved fromebonyor painted black to contrast with the bright colors of the embellishments. Depictions may only represent the head, or head and shoulders, facing the viewer in a symmetrical pose.

In decorative sculpture, the full body is depicted, either to hold trays as virtual servants or bronze sconces to hold candles or light fixtures. They may be incorporated into small stands, tables, orandirons. They are often portrayed in pairs.Andrea Brustolon(1662–1732) was the most important sculptor of blackamoors. Often these blackamoors are in acrobatic positions that would be impossible to hold for any extended length of time for a real person.A typicalblackamoorsculpture in a servant-role \"holding\"Morianbron(Blackamoor Bridge) inUlriksdal Palace, Sweden.Blackamoor figures were also used in larger sculptures, as for example on Blackamoor Bridge inUlriksdal Palace, Sweden.

Blackamoorsmay refer to:
·Black tetra, a small fish also called a blackamoor (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi)

·Moors, Muslims of Spain and North Africa
·Blackamoors (decorative arts)stylized depictions of black Africans in the decorative arts, jewelry, or heraldry
·wikt:blackamoor, slang for dark skinned people, after the Moors
·Blackamoor, Lancashire, a village in England

Blackamoorsare popular inVenice where they still grace entrances to grand salons. The sculptures are most often fashioned as lamps and candelabras or as tables and stands. Blackamoors enjoyed a resurgence of popularity during the early to mid-20th century and are sought out by collectors today.

MOORISH INVENTIONS

1.Surgery- Around the year 1,000 – the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi.
2.Coffee: Coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century.
3.Flying machine: \"Abbas ibn Firnas - in the 9th century.4.University: In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco.5.Algebra: The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician\'s famous 9th century treatise \"Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala\" which translates roughly as \"The Book of Reasoning and Balancing.\" The mathematician Al-Khwarizmi was the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.6.Optics: Many of the most important advances in the study of optics are said to come from the Muslim world. Around the year 1000, the great physicist Ibn al-Haitham discovered the camera obscura phenomenon (which explains how the eye sees images upright = connection between the optic nerve and the brain).7.Music: Muslim musicians are said to have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.8.Toothbrush: According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed is said to have popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.9.The Crank: Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system.10.Hospitals: The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.
WELL KNOWN BLACKAMOORS OR WITH BLACKAMOOR FOREFATHERS

Queen Philippa: England\'s First Black Queen
German classic composer Ludwig van Beethoven
QueenCharlotte of Britain
Queen Charlotte Sophie of Mecklenburg Strelitz (1744-1818), Wife of George III
The Roman EmperorSeptimius Severuswho led a conquest of Britain was a full-blooded Moor, born in what is called today as North Africa.

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