Dish with scene from myth of Perseus and Andromeda
Bernard Palissy
17th century
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
French, Normandy
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 1884
Accession Number
84.2.3
Tags
AndromedaPerseusSoldiersFemale Nudes
About the Artist
Bernard Palissy · 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...