IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73112 accession number: C.210-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 9 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the interior with cream slip, decorated with slip trailing in brown, dark brown and cream slips, and lead-glazed; the reverse is undecorated, but the sides appear to have been coated thinly in dark brown slip or paint. The dish is circular with a wide, sloping, and uneven concave rim, and a well with deep curved sides and an almost flat central area. The well is decorated with a central oval medallion enclosing a crowned and bewigged male head, perhaps Charles II, surrounded by four arched compartments each enclosing another crowned head, and in the spandrels between them, four slightly smaller crowned heads. The compartments, crowns, wigs and faces have outlines jewelled in brown and cream slips, and the wigs are filled in with dark brown slip. The trellis border on the rim is broken at the bottom by a panel slip-trailed with the name 'RALALPH TO' for Ralph Toft. object type: slipware dish decorated with a crowned and bewigged male bust in an oval medallion surrounded by eight more. The trellis border is broken by a panel slip-trailed with the name' RALALPH TO' for Ralph Toft. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: A small dealer in Yorkshire; bought by Mrs John Price; John Price, Woollen Merchant, 24 Aston Cross, Birmingham; the sale by him was negociated by a Mr Ernest Hyde, and the purchase was made by George Stoner for £80 and £10 commission on 20 January1909 on behalf of 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/73112 PEOPLE ------------------- King SUBJECTS ------------------- crown crown TECHNIQUES ---------- dark buff earthenware, thrown, slip-coated on the interior, decorated with slip-trailing in brown, dark brown, and cream, and lead-glazed; exterior 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 CREATORS -------- maker: Toft, Ralph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 43.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_210_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_210_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_210_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_210_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels