Dish
17th century
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 10 5/8 × 13 1/8 in. (27 × 33.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
French
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number
09.138.1
Tags
About the Artist
Bernard Palissy|Philips Galle|Maerten de Vos · 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...