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2. Chalkware - Wikipedia

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   MCM chalkware lamps were often romantic and exotic with a focus on the idealized beauty of historic, natural, and abstract designs. Common motifs were dancers (often sold as a male and female pair), innocent or sensual figures, trees, flowers, animals, zig-zags, waves and modern abstract sculpture typical of the period.

3. Universal Statuary Corp. - Wikipedia

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   In the 1950s, they produced chalkware lamps, usually featuring paired male and female figures, and other home decor that is widely collected today. The company employed many immigrant artisans to design the chalkware and plaster figures and produce the statues, lamps, home decor pieces and display advertising figures. Jack's wife was from ...

4. Vaillancourt Folk Art - Wikipedia

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   Gary Vaillancourt and wife Judi Vaillancourt founded Vaillancourt Folk Art in 1984 after Gary had given Judi three antique chocolate molds for Christmas. Judi, a classical illustrator, first poured these molds with chocolate, and later with beeswax, [ 5 ] before developing a process to create solid chalkware figures.

5. Blackamoor (decorative arts) - Wikipedia

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   Pair of Italian figures in painted wood, 18th century "Moor with Emerald Cluster" by Balthasar Permoser in the collection of the Grünes Gewölbe. 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.

6. Cigar store Indian - Wikipedia

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   The cigar store Indian became less common in the 20th century for a variety of reasons. [6] Sidewalk-obstruction laws dating as far back as 1911 were one cause. [7] Later issues included higher manufacturing costs, restrictions on tobacco advertising, and increased sensitivity towards depictions of Native Americans, all of which relegated the figures to museums and antique shops. [8]

7. Bobblehead - Wikipedia

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   Bobblehead figures. A bobblehead, also known by nicknames such as nodder, wobbler, or wacky wobbler, is a type of small collectible figurine.Its head is often oversized compared to its body.

8. Mid-century modern - Wikipedia

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   Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.

9. Caslon Antique - Wikipedia

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   Caslon Antique is popular today when an "old-fashioned" or "gothic" look is desired. It was used in the opening credits of the Jacques Rivette film La Belle Noiseuse.It is used by the musical group The Sisters of Mercy and Sepultura on their albums, for the logo of the musical Les Misérables, and for the covers of the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events.