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Description: | Artist: Toft, Thomas - English potter, act.1663-1689; Date(s): circa 1662 - circa 1685; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, dish, throwing (pottery technique), earthenware, thrown, slip-coated, slip-trailed, and lead-glazed; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.207-1928]
Description: Dish. Earthenware, thrown, the front coated with white slip, and slip-trailed in two shades of brown under lead-glaze; reverse unglazed. Circular with a broad rim, deep sides, and almost flat centre. Decorated in the middle with busts of a woman with her hair dressed in ringlets and wearing a necklace and a crown, and a man with a long wig, probably Catherine of Braganza and Charles I. Above and between their heads is a rosette, and below, a winged motif. The sides of the well are decorated with a zig-zag slightly curved line forming triangles, and the rim has a trellis border, broken at the bottom by a rectangular panel enclosing the name THOMAS.TOFT | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | lead-glazed earthenware dish Toft, Thomas | Temporal: | name=Charles I; start=1662; end=1685 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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