IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73119 accession number: C.211-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated with cream slip and decorated with slip-trailing in brown and dark brown, 'jewelling' in cream slip, and yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. Circular with a wide sloping rim, which has warped, and a well with deep curved sides, and flat central area. A suspension hole has been bored through the rim close to the top edge. The well is occupied by a mermaid with long wavy hair, who has her left arm raised and on her right supports a comb. Below her is a wave, and on the viewer's right, three circles, from which a stylized flower and a wavy-edged leaf extend towards the edge of the well. The outlines of the figure, waves, and plant motif are edged by cream 'jewels'. The rim is decorated with a trellis in both shades of brown slip, broken at the bottom, by a panel slip trailed with the name, 'RALPH: TOFT'. object type: Circular earthenware dish coated with cream slip and slip-trailed in two shades of brown with a mermaid holding a mirror, a trellis border, and the name RALPH TOFT. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: George Stoner, London, from whom bought for £80 on 22 May1911 by 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/73119 PEOPLE ------------------- mermaid SUBJECTS ------------------- mermaid comb mermaid comb TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated with cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in cream slip, and coated with yellowish lead-glaze; the reverse is undecorated. A suspension hole has been bored through the rim near the top edge. throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1690 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1690 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Toft, Ralph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things title: Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Thomas Toft and Associated Slipware Potters The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 A Collector's History of English Pottery A Collector's History of English Pottery The Enduring Mystery of Thomas Toft Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/large_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 461 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 946 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_211_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_211_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_211_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_211_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/318/57/large_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/318/57/mid_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 462 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.211-1928_201607_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/318/57/preview_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/318/57/C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.ptif height: 4771 pixels width: 5169 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/131/large_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/131/mid_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 462 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/131/C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 2769 pixels width: 3000 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/655/131/preview_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/41/250/large_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 945 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/41/250/mid_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 462 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.211-1928_201607_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/41/250/preview_C_211_1928_201607_adn21_mas.jpg height: 231 pixels width: 250 pixels