A FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CHARGER

SIGNED AND DATED RENOLEAU/1897

Details

A FRENCH PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CHARGER
Signed and dated Renoleau/1897
Moulded and applied with a large Mediterranean lobster, lying with its underside exposed, flanked by a scallop and a conch and two open mussel shells, the mottled ochre and brown shallow bowl with crimped pie-crust rim, the reverse pierced for hanging
15¾ in. (40 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Renoleau Collection à Angouléme

Lot Essay

According to current scholarship, the present dish is a unique example of this form. By tradition, this is the reason it was conserved by the Renoleau family. See Marshall Katz and Robert Lehr, Palissy Ware, London, 1996, p. 178, fig. 239 for a plate with a lobster and a crayfish, the latter inverted.

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