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figure group: Uncle Tom & Eva

Seated black male figure, his right foot raised on tied bale, his right arm around the skirt of a young white girl who stands on his right thigh. He is dressed in white trousers, open jacket and shirt, with gilt stripes on trousers and left sleeve, black shoes; a flower garland around his neck, a yellow hat in his left hand. She has red hair in ringlets and wears a white dress with gilt details, over pantaloons and blue boots; her left arm is around man's neck, in her right hand she holds a flower branch. All on irregular shaped base with gilt line around 2 sides; modelled flower spray on ground.
Inscribed on base: ' UNCLE TOM ' [lettering raised and detailed in gilt]

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