Palissy ware

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Palissy ware (uncountable)

  1. Ceramics produced in the style of the famous French potter Bernard Palissy (c. 1510-1590), characterized by three-dimensional modelled animals, often aquatic creatures such as snakes, fish, lizards, frogs and snails, arranged on large platters.
  2. The name given by Minton & Co to pottery decorated by means of coloured glazes applied direct to the biscuit, the process used by Bernard Palissy.
    • 1877, Leon Arnoux, Pottery, British Manufacturing Industries, Gutenberg. page #:373 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Jxci_C54bFMC/page/n419
      The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery. When, however, it is decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware, from the name of the great artist who used these for his beautiful works. [...]