Palissy ware
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Palissy ware is a term for ceramics produced by, or more often in the style of, the famous French potter Bernard Palissy c1510-1590. Palissy's distinctive style was much imitated by other potters both in his own period and in the nineteenth century, and it is now difficult to identify which 16th century works are actually by Palissy's own workshop except by comparison with either fragments from the grotto he certainly decorated at the Tuileries Palace or from excavations at the site of his Paris workshop. Many museums have now become cautious in their attributions.
This distinctive style of pottery is characterized by three-dimensional modelled, often acquatic, animals such as snakes, fish, lizards, frogs and snails, arranged onto large platters. Typically, each component is modelled and painted individually.
