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Palissy Ware

Bernard Palissy (1509-1589), French potter, 
geologist and naturalist (Retrieved from:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/3-bernard-
palissy-french-potter-sheila-terry.html)
"Palissy Ware" is a form of 19th Century ceramics invented by French potter Bernard Palissy.  At the time of its inception, Palissy Ware was known as "Rustique" Ware by Palissy himself.

Palissy Ware is made out of earthenware and usually depicts realistic water or pond scenes with individually painted snakes, frogs, and foliage; "Palissy's distinctive style of polychrome lead-glazed earthenware in a sombre earth-toned palette, using naturalistic scenes of plants and animals cast from life,[1] was much imitated by other potters both in his own lifetime and especially in the 19th century, when pottery in Palissy's style was produced by Charles-Jean Avisseau of Tours, who rediscovered Palissy's techniques in 1843, his relatives the Landais family of Tours, Georges Pull of Paris, Maurice, and Barbizet." (Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware )


Palissy Ware gave way to what we know today as Majolica Ware when Minton & Co. named their polychrome lead-glazed pottery the such.




French Palissy ware dish, 17.7ins., c.1870, maker Barbizet,
depicting fish, reptiles, insects and leaves.
(Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbizet_palissy
_ware_wall_plate.jpg)



Victor Barbizet Palissy Ware, majolica pottery Barbotine
wall plaque, Paris, France, second half 19th century, 
central pile of fish and an eel surrounded 
by copious lizards, snakes, shellfish (Retrieved from:
http://antiquesimagearchive.com/items/E8951997.html)

Large Mafra Majolica Palissy fish and eel wall plate
Victorian, circa 1890. 12inshigh, 12ins wide, 3.3ins depth.
Mafra Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate
which features three fish, two eels and two beetles. 
(Retrieved from:
 http://madelena.com/media4/majolica19695.html)

Notes:
  1.  Hanna Rose Shell, "Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature" (2004) Project MUSE.
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