A FRENCH PALISSY STYLE FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL SHAPED-OVAL PLATTER

CIRCA 1880-90, THRICE IMPRESSED TARDIEU FELIX MENTON

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A FRENCH PALISSY STYLE FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL SHAPED-OVAL PLATTER
CIRCA 1880-90, THRICE IMPRESSED TARDIEU FELIX MENTON
Applied with a large central lizard and a snake, the shaped rim with four small green frogs, two small blue frogs, two snails and two dung beetles flanking patches of mossy frit grass
21¼ in. (54 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Félix Tardieu, known as the 'blue frog man', is recorded in the late 19th and early 20th century maintaining a modest atelier in Menton on the French Riviera. For an image of his premises and similar examples of his work, see Maryse Bottero, Barbotines de la Côte d'Azur, Paris, 2002, p. 209.

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