English pottery pearlware figure of Jim Crow Staffordshire circa 1835 period.

Reference: 3671

Dated: 1835 Staffordshire English

A rare Staffordshire pottery figure of Jim Crow.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice an actor parodied a crippled black slave named Jim Crow.
Rice "blacked -up" for his unkind routine and was perhaps the man who inspired the Minstrels.
Jim Crow performed his act in 1835 in London and caused a sensation.
The figure represents a social insight to the period. (Myrna Schkolne reference Volume 2 Staffordshire Figures).

Dimensions: 7.00 inch high

Medium: staffordshire pottery pearlware ceramic

Current Condition Restored at hand.

Literature: Myrna Schkolne Volume 2 page 55 Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840

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