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Charles II and Catherine of Braganza

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Title/s	Charles II and Catherine of Braganza
Maker/s	Toft, Thomas [ULAN info: English potter, act.1663-1689]
Collection	J.W.L. Glaisher
Category	lead-glazed earthenware
Name	dish
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
Production Place	Staffordshire (county) England (country)
Technique Description	earthenware, thrown, slip-coated, slip-trailed, and lead-glazed
Dimensions	height: (whole): cm diameter: (whole): 42.5 cm
Period	Charles I 17th Century
Date	circa 1662 to 1685
Provenance	bequeathed: Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr 1928 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Hodgkin Collection; purchased in London in 1913 Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Inscriptions/Marks	maker's name Position: on front Method: slip-trailing Content: THOMAS.TOFT Interpretation: probably the potter's name
Documentation	Rackham, Bernard (1935 (reprinted Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987)) Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 35] [comments: Publ. Vol. I, p. 35, no. 207, vol. II, pl. 19A] Cooper, Ronald Glanville (1968) English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850, London: Tiranti [page: 69] [comments: Publ. p. 69, no. 8, and pl. 119. For other Thomas Toft dishes, see pp. 66-70] Poole, Julia E. (1995) Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 30-31] [comments: Publ. pp. 30-31, no. 10] (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 144] [comments: Publ.]
Other Notes
Accession Number	C.207-1928 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 73072; Input Date: 2004-03-11 / Last Edit: 2005-03-11)

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Charles II and Catherine of Braganza