Basin
late 16th–early 17th century
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
1/16 × 15 1/2 in. (0.2 × 39.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
French, Fontainebleau or Avon
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1904
Accession Number
04.9.20
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About the Artist
Bernard Palissy|François Briot · 1510–1590
Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–1590), born to a poor family in the Saintonge region of France—possibly in Saintes, Périgord, or near Agen—began his career apprenticed to a glass painter before becoming a wandering journeyman portrait painter, glassworker, and land surveyor across France, the Low Countries, and Italy. He learned the rudiments of pottery in La Chapelle-des-Pots and settled in Saintes as a...