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A Rampant Lion: C.213-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

A Rampant Lion

Maker(s)

Potter: Toft, Ralph

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Description

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.

Notes

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

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 46.5 cm
Height: 6.6 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, Late
Charles II
Production date: dated AD 1676

School or Style

Baroque

Components of the work

Front composed of slip ( cream, brown, dark brown) lead-glaze ( yellowish)
Decoration

Materials used in production

red Earthenware

Techniques used in production

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

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: RALPH :TOFT 1676
  • Location: On front
  • Method of creation: Slip trailed
  • Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.213-1928
Primary reference Number: 73148
Old object number: 3459

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 29 October 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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