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  2. Blackamoor (decorative arts) - Wikipedia

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    Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African descent, usually in clothing that suggests high status. Common examples of items and objects decorated in the blackamoor style include sculpture, jewellery, and furniture.

  3. Blackamoors - Wikipedia

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    Blackamoors may refer to: . Blackamoor (decorative arts), stylized depictions of black Africans in the decorative arts and jewelry Blackmoor (campaign setting), a fantasy roleplaying game campaign setting

  4. Dunham Massey Hall sundial - Wikipedia

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    The figure has been categorised as an example of a tradition in western art history called the "blackamoor", a personification of the continent of Africa, and as an anonymous ‘kneeling slave’. The blackamoor caricatures appeared in a wide range of arts including sculpture, painting, architectural decoration, ceramics, silverware and ...

  5. Morianbron - Wikipedia

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    Morianbron (Swedish: Blackamoor Bridge) is a small bridge in the gardens of the Ulriksdal Palace in Solna, Sweden, named after the pair of sculptures of so-called blackamoors (e.g. black Moors) standing by the bridge. Arguably the smallest bridge in the Swedish capital, it also passes over the indeed small stream Igelbäcken flowing through the ...

  6. Mogul lamp - Wikipedia

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    Mogul lamps are also the subject of a mathematics problem concerning the number of possible combinations of power that can be obtained. As it turns out, the name "Six Way Lamp" is somewhat deceiving since there are in fact 16 possible combinations (without the night-light), including combinations with all lamps of either switch off.

  7. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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    This lamp was the most important article of furniture for the Inuit, Yupik and other Inuit peoples. [9] The lamps were made of stone and their sizes and shapes of lamps could be different, but mostly were elliptical or half-moon shaped. The wicks were mostly made of dried moss or cottongrass and were lit along the edge of the lamp. A slab of ...