IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73083 accession number: C.208-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 7 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale red earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the front, and slip-trailed in dark ochre and brown, and 'jewelled' in cream under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The dish is circular with a wide rim, curved sides and flat central area. The well is decorated with the Royal Arms of England (the first and fourth quarters simplified) with lion and unicorn supporters, and above, a crowned helmet and mantling, with C and R respectively on either side of them. The arms are surrounded by the Garter ribbon trailed with 'HONI.SOIT.QVI.MAL.Y:PENSE::' (Shame on him who thinks evil of it) and in a rectangular panel below, is the motto, 'DIEV.ET.MON.DROIT' (God and my Right) . The name, 'thomas toFT' is trailed on a smaller panel attached underneath it. All the outlines are 'jewelled' with spots of white slip. The rim is decorated with a border of trellis pattern in dark ochre and brown. object type: earthenware dish, slip coated and slip-trailed with the Royal Arms supported by a lion and a unicorn, within a wide trellis border; reverse undecorated title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Believed to have been originally in Clifton Hall, Cumberland, the home of the Wybergh family; Mr G. Scott of Clifton village, who bequeathed it to his niece, Sarah Robinson of Clifton who sold it in 1903 to Mr Cooper, Chemist of Penrith, who had the edges restored; bought in the summer of 1908 by George Stoner, of Stoner & Evans, London; sold by him for £68 on 27 October 1908 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73083 PEOPLE ------------------- Toft, Thomas SUBJECTS ------------------- armorials coat-of-arms garter lion rampant unicorn coat-of-arms garter lion rampant unicorn TECHNIQUES ---------- pale red earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the front, and slip-trailed in dark ochre and brown, and 'jewelled' in cream under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Toft, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 53.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.6 CITATIONS -------- Quaint Old English Pottery Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Collecting Staffordshire Pottery English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 The Design of English Slipware, 1600-1720 Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery The Enduring Mystery of Thomas Toft --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_208_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_208_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_208_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_208_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_208_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_208_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_208_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_208_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels