Toft2
(tɒft)
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.
| 1878 L. 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. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 26 Those buff-coloured dishes which we now recognise as ‘Toft ware’. 1957 Mankowitz & Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 222/2 The name [of Ralph Toft] occurs on many typical large Toft-style dishes. 1961 L. G. G. Ramsey Connoisseur New Guide Antique Eng. Pottery 20 Signed Toft pieces are known dated 1671 and 1674. 1975 Country Life 26 June (Suppl.) 56/1 Christie's... Fine English Porcelain and Pottery... Toft dated slipware bragget-pot. |