A pair of Venetian parcel-gilt and ebonized wood blackamoors 19th century

With scattered age cracks. Ebonized wood with repainted areas. Gilding with rubbing and small losses. Small scattered losses to gesso. Female figure with loss to one earring. Both figures with restored breaks to extended arms. Lips repainted. Partially regilded. In otherwise good overall condition.
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A blackamoor almost identical to the male part of this lot was in the collection of Violette de Talleyrand, Duchesse de Sagan and Gaston Palweski, see Sortheby's Paris, March 10, 2010, lot 138.