Dish by Bernard Palissy|Philips Galle|Maerten de Vos

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

BuildingsFacesWomenFlowers

About the Artist

Bernard Palissy|Philips Galle|Maerten de Vos · 15101590

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...

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