Ornamental Platter with Pond Life
Palissy is known as a potter for such oval dishes transformed into tiny ponds, complete with vegetation, fish, and creatures from the water's edge. To make his ceramic ponds as lifelike as possible, he made molds from actual shells, frogs, lizards, fish, and other creatures to...
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Dean Garnier [label on back]; William Boare [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale November 1, 1879; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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earthenware with lead glaze
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