CIRCA 1840 CERAMIC JIM CROW ON BARREL FLASK BY BRAMPTON POTTERY OF DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND

CIRCA 1840 CERAMIC JIM CROW ON BARREL FLASK BY BRAMPTON POTTERY OF DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND

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Ceramic  Jim Crow on Barrel flask produced by Brampton Pottery of Derbyshire, England, with a Rockingham glaze, 9 5/8" tall, circa 1840. This flask was first produced to commemorate the 1836 performance of Thomas "Daddy" Rice's Jim Crow act in England. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, the white entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-1860) performed a popular song-and-dance act supposedly modeled after an enslaved man. He named the character Jim Crow. Rice darkened his face, acted like a buffoon, and spoke with an exaggerated and distorted imitation of African American Vernacular English. In his Jim Crow persona, he also sang "Negro ditties" such as "Jump Jim Crow." The flask is a redesigned Toby on Barrel jug with the top closed off to form a flask.  [lj][ph:L]

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