Handle in the form of a turbanned black boy wearing a quiver, emerging from a foliate base
Entry ID
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87 (27/01/2022)
Formal title of the work
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Handle in the form of a turbanned black boy wearing a quiver, emerging from a foliate base
Description of the sculpture
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A small bronze statuette of a turbanned boy on a later stone base. The figure was originally a handle and part of a larger feature. The boy wears a quiver and his lower body from the waist down is a swirling column of foliage.
URLs where this is recorded/available
Type of object
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Statuette
Base
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Base present - may be a later replacement
Dimensions
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Height: 9.1 cm
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Height (base): 1 cm
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Width (base): 3.5 cm
Materials
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Bronze
Specific techniques used
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Casting
Overall colour
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Monochrome – brown
Does the Black person have a specific identity?
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Anonymous: generic/idealised type
Attributes
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Quiver
Role within sculpture
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Main protagonist
Gender
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Male
Age
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Child
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Adolescent
Status
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Uncertain
Clothing
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Wearing clothes – ‘exotic’ clothing
Evidence of enslavement
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Uncertain
Evidence of 'exotic' status
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‘Exotic’ costume/dress
Action or activity
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Standing
Emotional state
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Indeterminate
Focus of gaze of Black person
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Looking sideways
Sculptural context
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No location included/implied
Place of production
Period of production
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Sixteenth century (1500-1599)
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Seventeenth century (1600-1699)
Date inferred from
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Inferred from stylistic features
Accession number
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WA1888.CDEF.B1075
Current rights holder
License terms for reuse
‘Handle in the form of a turbanned black boy wearing a quiver, emerging from a foliate base’ (no date), Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/749
