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A Rampant Lion
Production: Toft, Ralph
Earthenware, coated on the front in cream slip, and decorated with slip-trailing in reddish-brown, dark brown and cream under lead-glaze: a rampant lion surrounded by a trellis border, broken by a panel enclosing the name and date, 'RALPH TOFT 1676'
History note: Sotheby’s sale of 18 January 1912, lot 151; bought for £102 by Mr Harding (London dealer); bought from him for £130 on 31 January 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 46.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Production date:
dated
AD 1676
Front
composed of
lead-glaze
slip
Decoration
Accession number: C.213-1928
Primary reference Number: 73148
Old object number: 3459
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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