Platter
late 1500s
Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (French, 1510–1589)
Decorative Art and Design
Platter, late 1500s. Circle of Bernard Palissy (French, 1510–1589). Lead-glazed earthenware; overall: 49 x 40 cm (19 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1986.57 Coiled snakes, slinking lizards, and scaly fish adorn this decorative platter. Some of the naturalistic details were formed using casts of real animals.
- Maker/Artist
- Palissy, Bernard
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- lead-glazed earthenware
- Medium
- lead-glazed, earthenware
- Dimensions
- Overall: 49 x 40 cm (19 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1986.57
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1986, Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries, CMA 1987: "Year in Review 1986," Bulletin, 74 (February 1987), p. 61, no. 24, repr. p. 61
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 114 Late Northern Renaissance
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