Copy of a Reinaissance faïence dish

Georges et Jules Pull, Paris, France, ca. 1860

Glazed faïence.

L: 68 cm / W: 59.5 cm

Markings: Pull engraved along the lip

UMP 11814

Purchased by museum director Josef Škorpil at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris.

Vibrantly glazed faïence dishes decorated with relief amphibians, snakes, fish, and other animals and aquatic plants (rustique figulines) were typical of the work of the famed French Renaissance-era potter Bernard Palissy in the latter third of the sixteenth century.

In the Renaissance Revival period of the 1860s and 1870s it became fashionable to imitate his style. The leading Palissy imitators producing very exact copies of Palissy’s work included the workshop of Georges Pull (1810–1889) in Paris.

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