IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76861
accession number:	EC.1-1937

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 25 August 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: earthenware with slip decoration and lead-glaze
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Charles J. Lomax collection; sold Sotheby's, 7 April 1937, Well-known Collection of English Pottery, lot


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76861





CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: slipware

DATING
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creation date:	1660 - 1685
creation date earliest:	1660
creation date latest:	1685
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	Charles II

CREATORS
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maker: Toft, Thomas

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12



CITATIONS
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English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850
The Enduring Mystery of Thomas Toft
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