A Staffordshire pottery portrait group of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker modelled seated beside a companion musician beneath a flowering arbour, each figure is painted black, on a gilt scrolling base, 31cm high. * Chang and Eng Bunker were 'discovered' in 1829in Thailand by a Scottish merchant called Robert Hunter who paid their parents to exhibit them on a world tour (which included time with PT. Barnum's circus) They married identical English sisters, fathering 21 children before settling in North Carolina in 1839. They died on the same day in 1874. Chang derives from the Siamese for left and Eng for right.
A Staffordshire pottery portrait group of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker modelled seated beside a companion musician beneath a flowering arbour, each figure is painted black, on a gilt scrolling base, 31cm high. * Chang and Eng Bunker were 'discovered' in 1829in Thailand by a Scottish merchant called Robert Hunter who paid their parents to exhibit them on a world tour (which included time with PT. Barnum's circus) They married identical English sisters, fathering 21 children before settling in North Carolina in 1839. They died on the same day in 1874. Chang derives from the Siamese for left and Eng for right.
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