TWO FRENCH PALISSY STYLE PIERCED SPICE DISHES

LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY

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TWO FRENCH PALISSY STYLE PIERCED SPICE DISHES
LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
The oval example with blue emplacements amongst pierced scrolls and flower-heads; the circular example pierced with panels of flowers and harebells, the border with a band of unusual rope decoration against a diaper pattern ground
10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.) long, the spice dish
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diameter, the bowl

Provenance

Olivier Wormser Collection, Paris (the oval dish).
Acquired from Rainer Zietz Ltd., London, inventory nos. SB248 and SB254.

Lot Essay

For one of the few known examples with this rare rope border decoration, see the example in the Édouard de Rothschild collection, illustrated by G. de Rothschild and S. Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école, Paris, 1952, no. VIII, pl. 18.

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