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Potter: Toft, Thomas (Probably)
Earthenware with slip decoration and lead-glaze
Pale red earthenware, thrown, with applied pulled handle, decorated with cream and brown slips under a glossy lead-glaze which stops about 1.5 cm above the edge of the base. The body appears mid-brown under the yellowish lead-glaze. The jug has a cylindrical neck, and a slightly bulbous body which contracts into a narrow solid foot with a projecting edge. The strap handle has a slight longitudinal ridge. The neck is slip-trailed in brown with white spots over it with a narrow horizontal band below which is the name THOMAS TOFT. Below there is a broad cream slip band impressed with a row of Xs, and there is a similar band below the main field. This is decored wth five almond-shaped motifs outlined with cream slip and impressed Xs, and having a cream slip rosette in the centre of the pale red clay ground. In each space between them there is a vertical motif comprising a lozenge flanked by almond-shaped motifs impressed over cream slip. The ground is dark brown.
History note: Charles J. Lomax collection; sold Sotheby's, 7 April 1937, Well-known Collection of English Pottery, lot
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 12 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1937-04-07) by Sotheby's
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa
1660
CE
-
1685
CE
One of only five recorded pieces of hollowware signed by Thomas Toft.
This is a rare example of holloware bearing the name THOMAS TOFT, and is presumed to have been made by the potter who placed his name on many large dishes. A tyg is in the Yorkshire Museum at York, and a posset pot is in the Burrell Collection at York.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream and brown)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Body
Handle
pale red Earthenware
Inscription present: Circular ceam paper label transfer-printed in green with a slipware dish decorated wtih Prince Charles's head in the Boscobel oak flanked by a lion and a unicorn and with a criss-cross border broken at the bottom by a panel bearing the words LOMAX COLLECTION
Accession number: EC.1-1937
Primary reference Number: 76861
Glaisher additions number: Gl. Add. 60-1937
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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