Large round plate with bird and serpent
Though Alfred Renoleau made this piece while working at a tile factory, the carefully modeled high relief of the distressed bird and coiling serpent suggest Renoleau’s sculptural ambitions.
Artwork Details
- Title: Large round plate with bird and serpent
- Maker: Alfred Renoleau (1854 Mansle, Charente, France–1930 Angoulême, France)
- Manufactory: Polakowski Tile Factory (French)
- Date: 1889
- Culture: French, Roumazière
- Medium: Glazed earthenware with applied decoration
- Dimensions: confirmed, irregular diameter: 4 15/16 × 18 1/2 × 18 3/8 in. (12.5 × 47 × 46.7 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
- Credit Line: Gift of Wallis Katz, in memory of Marshall Katz, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, 2020
- Object Number: 2020.86.5
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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Alfred Renoleau
Renoleau Manufactory
1887–88
Alfred Renoleau
Polakowski Tile Factory
1890
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ca. 1890–94
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