Live Auction 16424Property from the Estate of Eugene V. Thaw
A FRENCH EARTHENWARE HEXAFOIL DISH
Lot 366

A FRENCH EARTHENWARE HEXAFOIL DISH

LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, SCHOOL OF PALISSY

Closed30 October 2018

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A FRENCH EARTHENWARE HEXAFOIL DISH
LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, SCHOOL OF PALISSY
The dish molded with six masks with leaf diadems; together with a Palissy style square pot molded with similar masks
9 in. (23 cm.) diameter, the dish
3 ¼ in. (8 cm.) high, the pot

Olivier Wormser Collection, Paris (the dish).
Acquired from Rainer Zietz Ltd., London, inventory no. SB252 (the dish).
Acquired from Arthur Davidson Ltd., London, 4 June 1984 (the pot).

Specialist note

For a dish with the same mask and flower border in the Édouard de Rothschild collection, see G. de Rothschild and S. Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, no. XII, pl. 8.