Round dish with moss and fish

José Francisco de Sousa Portuguese

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Despite of widespread social unrest and political instability for much of the nineteenth-century in Portugal, a number of ceramics factories appeared in the Calda da Rainhas area, which produced works inspired by Bernard Palissy. In 1860, José Francisco de Sousa purchased a factory from another ceramicist and began making decorative plates, which often featured lobsters, fish, and moss. In this example, a dish of fish and an eel have been placed on a bed of moss.

Round dish with moss and fish, José Francisco de Sousa (Portuguese, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, active 1860–1893), Glazed earthenware, Portugal, Caldas de Rainha

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