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Potter: Toft, Ralph
Earthenware dish, slip-trailed in two shades of brown and cream a lady a floral spray in each hand, and a trellis border interrupted by the inscription ‘RALPH TOFT 1677’
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated in cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in white slip, and covered with yellowish lead glaze. The reverse is undecorated. Circular with a wide sloping rim, and a well with curved sides and a flat central area. The well is occupied by a lady with a tiny waist, holding up a stem of flowers in each hand. She wears a low-necked bodice with puff sleeves, and a bell-shaped skirt with a striped apron. On each side of her there is leaf (or butterfly) and a bust of a bewigged and crowned man, probably Charles II. the rim is decorated with a trellis border, broken at the bottom by a panel slip-trailed in dark brown with the name and date 'RALPH:TOFT 1677'.
History note: Sotheby's, 22 April, 1912, lot 117; bought for £90 by Mr Harding; bought from him for £120 on 10 May 1912 by Dr JW.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 45.5 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Production date:
dated
AD 1677
This image may have been inspired by a woodcut ballad illustration of a woman holding a flower.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, two shades of brown)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Throwing (pottery technique) : Dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated in cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in white slip, and covered with yellowish lead glaze. The reverse is undecorated by appears to have been coated in a reddish-brown substance.
Accession number: C.212-1928
Primary reference Number: 73141
Old object number: 3460
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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