IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73141 accession number: C.212-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated in cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in white slip, and covered with yellowish lead glaze. The reverse is undecorated. Circular with a wide sloping rim, and a well with curved sides and a flat central area. The well is occupied by a lady with a tiny waist, holding up a stem of flowers in each hand. She wears a low-necked bodice with puff sleeves, and a bell-shaped skirt with a striped apron. On each side of her there is leaf (or butterfly) and a bust of a bewigged and crowned man, probably Charles II. the rim is decorated with a trellis border, broken at the bottom by a panel slip-trailed in dark brown with the name and date 'RALPH:TOFT 1677'. object type: earthenware dish, slip-trailed in two shades of brown and cream a lady a floral spray in each hand, and a trellis border interrupted by the inscription ‘RALPH TOFT 1677’ title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 22 April, 1912, lot 117; bought for £90 by Mr Harding; bought from him for £120 on 10 May 1912 by Dr JW.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/73141 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated in cream slip, slip trailed in brown and dark brown, 'jewelled' in white slip, and covered with yellowish lead glaze. The reverse is undecorated by appears to have been coated in a reddish-brown substance. throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1677 - 1677 creation date earliest: 1677 creation date latest: 1677 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Toft, Ralph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain 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/aa7/C_212_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_212_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_212_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_212_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels