A CONTINENTAL PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CIRCULAR CHARGER

CIRCA 1860-70, ATTRIBUTED TO SCHOOL OF PARIS

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A CONTINENTAL PALISSY STYLE TROMPE L'OEIL CIRCULAR CHARGER
CIRCA 1860-70, ATTRIBUTED TO SCHOOL OF PARIS
The center moulded and applied with two lizards in combat, flanked by snakes, frogs and a third lizard among shells and foliage, the border with berried vine within a rouletted rim
17 in. (43.1 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

See the New Orleans Museum of Art, Grotesquerie: Form, Fantasy and Function in 19th Century European Ceramics, 1997, New Orleans, p. 3, and p. 27, cat no. 8 for a very similar charger attributed to School of Paris in the Collection of Brooke Hayward Duchin.

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