A SMALL FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL OVAL DISH
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A SMALL FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL OVAL DISH

CIRCA 1850-1880, INCISED VA MONOGRAM & AVISSEAU A TOURS

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A SMALL FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL OVAL DISH
CIRCA 1850-1880, INCISED VA MONOGRAM & AVISSEAU A TOURS
With a snake, a crayfish, a lizard and a frog among ferns and oak leaves
8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For a large similarly applied oval platter in the Collection of the Musee de Beaux Arts, Tours, see Pierre Faveton, Les Barbotines, Paris, p. 14. For this example illustrated again, see Marshall P. Katz and Robert Lehr, Palissy Ware Nineteenth-Century French Ceramists from Avisseau to Remoleau, New Jersey, 1996, p. 56, fig. 21. Here the work is attributed to Charles-Jean Avisseau.

Charles-Jean Avisseau, French (1795-1861).