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The surname of a Staffordshire family used attrib. to designate (a style of) lead-glazed slipware made there in the late-seventeenth cent., some of the best examples of which bear the name of Thomas Toft (d. 1689) or another Toft, usu. regarded as the maker of the piece.
1878L. Jewitt Ceramic Art of Gt. Brit. I. iv. 103 Another Toft dish..bears a female figure..and the name Ralphoft, or Ralph Toft, the h and t being apparently conjoined. 1900F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 26 Those buff-coloured dishes which we now recognise as ‘Toft ware’. 1957Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 222/2 The name [of Ralph Toft] occurs on many typical large Toft-style dishes. 1961L. G. G. Ramsey Connoisseur New Guide Antique Eng. Pottery 20 Signed Toft pieces are known dated 1671 and 1674. 1975Country Life 26 June (Suppl.) 56/1 Christie's... Fine English Porcelain and Pottery... Toft dated slipware bragget-pot. |