Oval Dish
Bernard Palissy
17th century
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
5.6 × 21.8 × 28.5 cm (2 3/16 × 8 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
dish (vessel)
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
31564
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...