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John Blanke was a Royal Trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII.

The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton of a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in the 4th Century AD. Found in 1901 she was buried with many beautiful examples of Roman jewellery including ivory and jet bangles.

"The most sensational woman anyone ever saw" -Ernest Hemingway

This painting, misinterpreted for so many years, shows a pretty girl with a beautiful woman to her right, visions of aristocratic refinement in the grounds of Kenwood House. Finished in 1779, the painting is unique in that it depicts a black and white woman as near equals at a time where black figures in portraiture were almost always shown as less than, reflecting the fact that slavery was still legal in the British Empire.

The wax we use is a vegetable wax made from soybeans called ecosoya CB advanced. It is vegan, sustainable, biodegradable and made in the UK in Lancashire.