1592999565000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-71613 1753207445559 1711362105000 1753207432668 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-71613 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71613 bd8313cb-bcd9-3856-b2dd-72702f8daabc 9 Rice appeared as Jim Crow at London's Surrey Theatre in 1836 reference agent-188418 adlib-agent-188418 28cfbfd5-1447-3550-a89c-74fc922d93f3 Rice, Thomas Dartmouth person reference agent-149839 adlib-agent-149839 6f40fe74-1a46-31f9-b1ec-25f15b7dad75 archer reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware reference term-113615 adlib-term-113615 d94c81ae-d7b1-3909-8121-11962452cc0f brown salt-glazed stoneware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher on upper part reference term-121344 adlib-term-121344 c5af359a-c817-30fd-8a39-ecfbb17adb1a brown dip Upper Part brown reference term-121345 adlib-term-121345 161ef46a-4cb9-3e99-9aa9-49eea63d9d44 dipping reference term-37110 adlib-term-37110 ef92f1a8-1400-3fa3-863f-e099781ea442 salt-glaze Surface reference term-120043 adlib-term-120043 5cfbfafc-b55f-3261-8e8b-6043f5d90289 salt-glazing Applied Arts C.1220-1928 1 accession number C.1220-1928 71613 priref 71613 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 13 old object number 3344 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71613 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71613 on left shoulder impressed SHIP / GRAY'S INN / LANE\ inscription on right shoulder impressed ARCHER / SPIRIT / MERCHANT inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed the Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher’s death 1836 1836 circa 1836 possibly production reference agent-182814 adlib-agent-182814 a52f7a3e-998f-3104-bf4d-750d00b42a4b Lambeth Pottery This flask depicts the white American actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-60) in his most famous role, that of ‘Jim Crow’, supposedly an elderly black man. Rice performed blackface and drew on aspects of African American culture, most notably vernacular speech, music and dance. His ‘Jim Crow’ persona was appropriated from the folk stories of a trickster by the same name that had long been popular among enslaved black people. Rice also popularised a traditional slave song entitled ‘Jump Jim Crow’ (1828). However, his exaggerated and racist depiction of the character meant that the term ‘Jim Crow’ was later used to refer to a generalised negative and stereotypical view of black people and was applied to the segregation laws that became prevalent in the U.S.A between 1870s and 1960s. The source of the moulding of the figure on this flask is an image of Rice’s character that appears on the lithograph music cover of a song performed by Rice when he visited England. Rice’s performances had long been popular in North America but he also became well-known in England after performing at the Surrey Theatre, Southwark, London, in 1836, before moving to the more upmarket Adelphi Theatre to perform in a play based around his ‘Jim Crow’ character. A number of flasks depicting Rice in character were made at that time, most probably in Lambeth. Similar examples without the impressed inscription can be found in the Southwark Art Collection (no. CE127) and in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. C.40-2002), who also record a similar flask with a single hook attached to the shoulder, marked by the modeller and potter, Thomas Wetherill of Lambeth. An example with a handle, in the collection of J. F. Mott, is illustrated in J. F. Blacker (1922) 'The A B C of English Salt-Glaze Stone-Ware', London: Stanley Paul & Co., plate opposite p. 116, which is described, perhaps erroneously, as made at Fulham. This is the only known example with an impressed inscription (see below). It may refer to Joseph Archer of the Ship Public House, 32 ½ Gray’s Inn Lane, recorded in the Post Office London Directory of 1843. reference term-106927 adlib-term-106927 54c3b95f-ae52-3e1a-80e5-c9eedfa03dcc 1830s reference term-109918 adlib-term-109918 b99df2d6-5877-350a-aba8-e750da5d9ef0 William IV reference term-108424 adlib-term-108424 7581123a-2c9b-375a-bf9d-9e2fe0f9ff04 literal England England country possibly Lambeth Lambeth buff reference term-42825 adlib-term-42825 858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39d stoneware Height cm 17.7 reference media-35215 adlib-media-35215 46a9938a-1798-365d-9047-2b51e906f574 jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582416775 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/mid_C_1220_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582416775 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582416775 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/preview_C_1220_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582416775 1 image 0 media image reference media-35216 adlib-media-35216 85f4027f-423a-390f-b644-13f6b00c31b7 jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582435611 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/mid_C_1220_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582435611 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582435611 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/preview_C_1220_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582435611 1 image 1 media image reference media-35217 adlib-media-35217 9cea85e6-9f8c-3117-a8c9-de319a515404 jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582414074 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/mid_C_1220_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582414074 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582414074 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/preview_C_1220_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582414074 1 image 2 media image reference media-35218 adlib-media-35218 f1425542-7e77-353f-be7e-ed60c9479b58 jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582418394 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/mid_C_1220_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742582418394 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/C_1220_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742582418394 1 image jpeg aa/aa7/preview_C_1220_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742582418394 1 image 3 media image reference term-107609 adlib-term-107609 71b65ef8-c0fb-319e-925f-37526bfc6764 flask spirit flask 1 reference object-185831 adlib-object-185831 5684936e-2b77-349d-a6d6-af186597fb99

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figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. I, p. 157, no. 1220, attributed to Lambeth. The dancing figure was identified simply as a sailor. 157 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf. plate opposite p. 116, a similar example but with a handle is described (perhaps erroneously) as made at Fulham. Opposite p. 116 reference publication-3472 adlib-publication-3472 9db447b8-dbec-35d5-8e59-d98e4bf1fbb9 The A B C of English Salt-Glaze Stoneware Cf. pp. 253-62, Ivor Noel Hume, 'Stoneware gin flasks: legacy of the damned', on p. 259, where the figure is identified as Thomas Dartmouth Rice in the role of Jim Crow, in which he appeared at London's Surrey Theatre in 1836. The flask is attributed 'almost certainly' to Lambeth. See p. 260, fig. 9 a lithograph music cover showing Jim Crow, wearing a different hat. The article appeared in The Magazine Antiques, in February, 1975. 253-62 reference publication-7656 adlib-publication-7656 ef33cea7-6c3f-30f9-a152-2a92d624bd2a English Pottery and Porcelain. An Historical Survey reference term-110517 adlib-term-110517 d21bf5a3-90b7-321c-a277-52dd639bd321 acting reference term-108150 adlib-term-108150 42e3994d-ec02-3a34-be82-e954d8d50606 drinking activity reference term-106480 adlib-term-106480 b059cfb8-07ea-3c75-9f41-3c892139ca4c dancing literal dancing dancing

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flask buff stoneware, press-moulded, dipped brown on the upper part, and salt-glazed reference term-120085 adlib-term-120085 68c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714 press-moulding object OBJECT