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Dusty Bob: EC.35.8-1943

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Dusty Bob

Maker(s)

Pottery: Wood, Enoch

Entities

Categories

Description

Off-white earthenware, press-moulded and covered with slightly blue-tinted glaze. The upper part of Dusty Bob wearing a hat with an extended brim at the back , a neckerchief, shirt and jacket.

Notes

History note: Found with other figures and fragments beneath the pavement on the south side of Burslem old Town Hall (oposite the Leopard Inn) during Mr Bemrose's excavation in April 1938; exchanged with other fragments for a copy of Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935.

Legal notes

Given by the Stoke-on-Trent Museum in exchange for a copy of the Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection

Measurements and weight

Height: 6.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943-06-29) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

Dating

1820s
George IV
Circa 1821 CE - 1830 CE

Note

Dusty Bob was a character in Pierce Egan's play, Tom & Jerry, first performed in 1821

Materials used in production

off white Earthenware
tinted very slightly blue Lead-glaze

Techniques used in production

Lead-glazing
Moulding

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: EC.35.8-1943
Primary reference Number: 76959

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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