FRANÇOIS MAURICE, Oval dish with butterfly and frog in ceramic slip
FRANÇOIS MAURICE, Oval dish with butterfly and frog in ceramic slip
Palissy suite dish
Polychrome enamelled ceramic
Date
circa 1880
Size
width 28 cm - length 41 cm
Collection
Barbotine & Majolica
Condition
pristine state
Inventory number
116
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Decorations of snake in its center, fish, frog, crayfish, butterfly, salamander, dragonfly and shell.
Blue marli, emerald background.
Signed hollow on the border "F Maurice"
Bibliography :
- « Bernard Palissy et ses suiveurs du XVI e siècle à nos jours », Édition Faton 2010, by Christine Viennet. Page 182,183 ,184
- « Palissy Ware » by Marshall P.Tatz and Robert Lehr. Édition The ATHLONE PRESS 1996. Page 142,143.