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Collections

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.
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
  • Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.