Platter with crocodile, snake, and lizard
School of Paris French
Not on view
Inspired by the works made by the Renaissance ceramicist Bernard Palissy (1510-ca.1590), nineteenth-century producers of Palissy ware combined novel motifs with traditional techniques. A crocodile, which were not a typical feature of the sixteenth-century potter’s work, occupies the center of this platter teeming with life.
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