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Bernard Palissy

(Palissy, Bernard, 1510?-1590)

Bernard Palissy, self-portrait in faience, from the collection of Baron Anthony de Rothschild in London. Hand-coloured lithograph from Alexandre Sauzay & Henri Delange, Monographie de l'œuvre de Bernard Palissy, suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs, Paris, 1862.
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Bernard Palissy (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ palisi]; c. 1510 – c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rusticware", typically highly decorated large oval platters featuring small animals in relief among vegetation, the animals apparently often being moulded from casts taken of dead specimens. It is often difficult to distinguish examples from Palissy's own workshop and those of a number of "followers" who rapidly adopted his style. Imitations and adaptations of his style continued to be made in France until roughly 1800, and then revived considerably in the 19th century. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Oeuvres Complètes de Bernard Palissy: Édition Conforme aux Textes Originaux Imprimés du Vivant de l'Auteur, Avec des Notes et une Notice Historique (in French; Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et cie, 1844), by Bernard Palissy, ed. by Paul-Antoine Cap
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