Palissy Ware Trompe L'oeil Oval Platter, Signed Longchamp, French, ca. 1875
Palissy Ware Trompe L'oeil Oval Platter, Signed Longchamp, French, ca. 1875
$3,275.00
Longchamp Large Oval Palissy Ware Trompe L'oeil Platter, with molded and applied fish, two langoustines, and two naturalistically molded and glazed frogs, a green-glazed lizard, and a large snake to the center, with shells throughout, on green-glazed leaves and water, the reverse with impressed maker's mark, 'LONGCHAMP,' French, ca. 1875.
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Book reference: Marshall P. Katz and Robert Lehr, PALISSY WARE: 19th CENTURY FRENCH CERAMISTS From Avisseau to Renoleau. London: The Athelone Press, 1996, p. 150, FIGURES 200 and 201.
