Bernard palissy

Page of Foot-bowl in Rustic Style by PALISSY, Bernard in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900)

As a true Renaissance artist, Bernard Palissy's interest was not limited to one discipline. Rather, it was art, technology and the natural sciences that equally attracted his attention, which he combined in his extraordinary ceramic works.

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This pilgrim flask belongs to the limited corpus of sixteenth-century ceramics attributed with certainty to Bernard Palissy and his workshop.(1) It not only shares stylistic, technical, and compositional similarities with Palissy’s innovative potteries — the so-called rustic ceramics — but also with fragments from the potter’s workshop excavated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries under the Tuileries in Paris

A look at Palissy ware, and the revival of Renaissance reptilian ceramics in late 19th-century Portugal

Lead-glazed earthenware vessel (possibly a sauceboat or drinking vessel) with figures of Bacchus and Ceres, second half of the 16th century.

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Reprint of Bernard Palissy design for the Bernard Palissy "Fern" Pitcher, 16th C. France. Louvre Museum. Design adapted by George Jones for a similar pattern in Majolica, 1870's, England.