IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73072 accession number: C.207-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 16 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, thrown, the front coated with white slip, and slip-trailed in two shades of brown under lead-glaze; reverse unglazed. Circular with a broad rim, deep sides, and almost flat centre. Decorated in the middle with busts of a woman with her hair dressed in ringlets and wearing a necklace and a crown, and a man with a long wig, probably Catherine of Braganza and Charles I. Above and between their heads is a rosette, and below, a winged motif. The sides of the well are decorated with a zig-zag slightly curved line forming triangles, and the rim has a trellis border, broken at the bottom by a rectangular panel enclosing the name THOMAS.TOFT object type: Circular earthenware dish, decorated with slip and lead-glazed: busts of a man and woman surrounded by a trellis border broken by a panel enclosing the name, THOMAS.TOFT title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: J.E. Hodgkin Collection; Wilfred Harding, London from whom purchased on 13 or 15 September 1913 for £170 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. The dish arrived in Cambridge on 16 October. 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/73072 PEOPLE ------------------- Charles II Catherine of Braganza TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, slip-trailed in pale brown, brown, dark brown, and cream, and lead-glazed throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1685 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1685 culture: Charles II culture: 17th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Toft, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7 dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 44 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things title: Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Early Staffordshire Pottery Thomas Toft and Associated Slipware Potters English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 Collecting Staffordshire Pottery Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector The Enduring Mystery of Thomas Toft Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/large_C_207_1928_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 810 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/mid_C_207_1928_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 396 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/C_207_1928_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 811 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa38/preview_C_207_1928_201810_adn21_dc2.jpg 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