Lot Essay
Cf. Marshall P. Katz and Robert Lehr, Palissy Ware, Nineteenth Century French Ceramists from Avisseau to Renoleau (1996), p. 141, pl. 179 for an example attributed to Thomas-Victor Sergent.
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Details
A French Palissy style tobacco jar and cover
modelled as a knarled stump, applied with a serpent, toad, butterflies, insects and flowers, with toad stool finial, circa 1880 (minor chips) -- 19cm. high
See colour plate 4
modelled as a knarled stump, applied with a serpent, toad, butterflies, insects and flowers, with toad stool finial, circa 1880 (minor chips) -- 19cm. high
See colour plate 4