Platter in the Shape of a Skiff
by PALISSY, Bernard, Glazed terracotta, 46 x 76 cm
Bernard Palissy is known to posterity as the author of treatises, an inspired potter, and a Huguenot who died miserably in a dungeon in the Bastille. The French genre ‘rustiques figulines’, potteries enriched with vegetal and reptile forms cast from nature, was probably invented by him.