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Palissy (after), Bernard
Large Oval Rustic Dish with Fish and Reptilesc.1600-1650

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Large oval ceramic dish with cobalt blue glaze and high-relief sculptural decoration, featuring a central coiled serpent flanked by fish, surrounded by a rim crowded with tortoises, lizards, fronds, and shells
Oval ceramic dish with high-relief molded decoration; a coiled serpent dominates the pale blue center, surrounded by eels, frogs, lizards, ferns, and shells against a deep cobalt blue border with polychrome glaze.
Close-up of a ceramic dish with molded relief decoration, featuring a small bird, shells, aquatic plants, and lotus leaves in brown, yellow, green, and white against a cobalt blue glazed ground.
Ceramic tile with molded relief decoration; green-glazed leaves with incised vein details against a cobalt blue ground, with small raised forms in yellow, brown, and white glaze.

Palissy (after), Bernard, Bernard Palissy (school of), Large Oval Rustic Dish with Fish and Reptiles, c.1600-1650, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the Hearst Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Palissy (after), Bernard
France, 1509–1590
Title
Large Oval Rustic Dish with Fish and Reptiles
Place Made
France
Date Made
c.1600-1650
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware, Palissy ware
Dimensions
Overall: 3 7/8 x 20 1/2 x 16 1/8
Credit Line
Gift of the Hearst Foundation
Accession Number
49.26.2
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.