Display dish with a cavalier and portrait medallions 1677 Ralph Toft British The circular dish, painted on a pale ochre ground in light and dark brown slip, is decorated with a central male figure who holds a sword in each of his upraised arms. His head is flanked by two stylized foliate designs; on either side of his body is an oval enclosing a crowned female head. The charger is signed Ralph Toft 1677 in a rectangular cartouche along the bottom rim, while the remainder of the rim is decorated with a trellis pattern executed in light and dark brown slip. This creamware dish speaks to the changing ceramic technologies of eighteenth-century England. Both the form and decoration of the dish are highly typical of salt-glaze stoneware production of the 1760s, but this example is made of creamware, a type of refined white earthenware that gained enormous popularity in the second half of the eighteenth century. Thus, the dish represents an instance of a new ceramic body being used to replica