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A Rampant Lion
Potter: Toft, Ralph
Earthenware, coated on the front in cream slip, and decorated with slip-trailing in reddish-brown, dark brown and cream under yellowish lead-glaze: a rampant lion surrounded by a trellis border, broken by a panel enclosing the name and date, 'RALPH TOFT 1676'
Pale red earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in cream slip, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated. Circular with a wide, sloping rim, and well with deep curved sides and flat central area. The well is occupied by a vigorous rampant lion with five trefoil plant motifs and a wavy leaf in the spaces around it. The dark outlines of the lion and other motifs are 'jewelled' in cream slip. The rim is decorated with a trellis in two shades of brown, broken on the lower edge by a 'jewelled' panel enclosing the name and date: ' RALPH: TOFT 1676' in dark brown slip.
History note: Sotheby’s sale of 18 January 1912, lot 151; bought for £102 by Mr Harding, London; 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
Height: 6.6 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
slip
( cream, brown, dark brown)
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Decoration
red Earthenware
Throwing : Pale red earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in cream slip, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated, but has a dark brown area on the rim and sides
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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