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Dusty Bob
Pottery: Wood, Enoch
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.
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.
Given by the Stoke-on-Trent Museum in exchange for a copy of the Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943-06-29) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
1820s
George IV
Circa
1821
CE
-
1830
CE
Dusty Bob was a character in Pierce Egan's play, Tom & Jerry, first performed in 1821
off white
Earthenware
tinted very slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Accession number: EC.35.8-1943
Primary reference Number: 76959
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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