Collection Early Palissy Majolica Lobster / Crab Wall Plaques

Description: SIX WONDERFUL PALISSY MAJOLICA LOBSTER / CRAB WALL PLAQUES Circa - 1900 We have the privilege to offer you estate palissy majolica lobster/crab wall plaques from the 1900 period. This is a rare find! The plates are decorated with a large, medium and small Spiny and American Lobsters to the center resting on a textured ground and flanked by sets of mussel shells. Additionally, a crab plate is included! The plates having a a manganese glaze with shades of brown, blue, cream and pink, the rear of the plate with a cream glaze and pierced to allow the plate to be hung on the wall. The metal hangers are included, however, I will remove if desired. Condition is excellent. Four of the plates have J. Willfred of Portugal manufacture labels. Sizes: Large American and Spiny Lobster plates (2): 12.3" inches in diameter; Medium size Spiny Lobster plates (2): 10" inches in diameter; Small size Crab and Spiny Lobster plates (2): 7.5" inces in diameter. Portuguese trompe-l'oeil platters/plates features a bright red lobsters and crab on textured and mottled ground of sand, mussels, kelp and shells. Bernard Palissy (1510-1590), the great French Renaissance potter, created a style of ceramic art that reproduced three-dimensional still lifes. This pottery, known as palissy ware, is characterized by colorful majolica (tin) glazes and includes high relief surface decoration. It enjoyed widespread popularity in the sixteenth century, and was often imitated during Palissy's lifetime and for many years thereafter. Palissy copied things like the fish, frogs, lizards, floral and fauna found in or near Paris. He patterned the fish after those found in the Seine River and the fossil shells are easily recognized as the tertiary shells of the Paris basin. These pièces rustiques, as Palissy himself called them, were made for decorative purposes only. Nearly 250 years after Palissy's death, Charles-Jean Avisseau, also a French ceramist, rediscovered the lost secrets of Palissy which energized a revivalist movement in France and the Portuguese town of Caldas da Rainha that would last until the beginning of the twentieth century. Extensive collections of palissy ware can be found in the Louvre and the Musée de Cluny in Paris. The American lobster's forward most pair of “legs” has been greatly modified over time to form the large pair of claws with the larger claw being known as the crusher claw and the other, more pointed claw as the ripper. The highly sought-after species by game-seeking sport divers and by commercial fishermen, the American lobster naturally occurs in reef communities from Newfoundland to North Carolina. The species is sometimes called the Maine lobster The California spiny lobster is unique in that it may life as long as 100 years in the wild.

Price: 950 USD

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado

End Time: 2024-10-12T18:05:05.000Z

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