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Flask
ca. 1836 (made)
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Rectangular slab-sided stoneware gin-flask with round neck, brown salt-glazed stoneware (brown above and buff below) moulded with a figure of 'Jim Crow' on both sides.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware |
| Brief description | Stoneware gin-flask decorated with a figure of 'Jim Crow', Lambeth, ca. 1836 |
| Physical description | Rectangular slab-sided stoneware gin-flask with round neck, brown salt-glazed stoneware (brown above and buff below) moulded with a figure of 'Jim Crow' on both sides. |
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| Credit line | Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Staffordshire Fund |
| Historical context | The white American comedian, Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-60) acted the character 'Jim Crow', supposedly an elderly black man, in a song and dance act. The sheet music which bears an image of the character on which the moulding of this flask is based, was published in 1828. Rice brought his act to the Surrey Theatre, London, in 1836. Another flask, with single hook attached to the shoulder is known which is marked by the modeller and potter, Thomas Wetherill of Lambeth. |
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| Accession number | C.40-2002 |
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| Record created | June 20, 2003 |
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