# Palissy ware > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Palissy_ware > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Palissy_ware.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware > Source revision: 1317899370 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|19th-century term for a style of ceramics}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|French Palissy ware dish, c. 1550 '''Palissy ware''' is a 19th-century term for [ceramics](/source/ceramics_(art)) produced in the style of the famous French potter [Bernard Palissy](/source/Bernard_Palissy) (c. 1510–90), who referred to his own work in the familiar manner as {{lang|fr|rustique}} ("in the rustic style"). It is therefore also known as '''rusticware'''. Palissy's distinctive style of [polychrome](/source/polychrome) lead-glazed earthenware Bouquillon, A & Castaing, J & Barbe, F & Paine, S.R. & Christman, B & Crépin-Leblond, T & Heuer, A.H.. (2016). Lead-Glazed Rustiques Figulines [Rustic Ceramics] of Bernard Palissy [1510-90] and his Followers: Archaeometry. 59. 10.1111/arcm.12247. "Summary: Analysis confirms that Palissy used coloured lead glazes, lead silicates with added metal oxides of copper [for green], cobalt [for blue], manganese [for brown and black] or iron [for yellow ochre] with a small addition of tin [for opacity] to some of the glazes." in a sombre earth-toned palette, using naturalistic scenes of plants and animals cast from life,Hanna Rose Shell, "Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature" (2004) Project MUSE. was much imitated by other potters both in his own lifetime and especially in the 19th century. In this revival, pottery in Palissy's style was produced by Charles-Jean Avisseau of Tours, who rediscovered Palissy's techniques in 1843, his relatives the Landais family of Tours, Georges Pull of Paris, Maurice, and Barbizet. The number of 16th-century pieces attributed to Palissy himself is now much less than in the past, and attributions tend to be cautious, as for example: "workshop or imitator or follower of Palissy". thumb|French Palissy ware dish, 17.7ins., c.1870, maker Barbizet, depicting fish, reptiles, insects and leaves. thumb|Portuguese Palissy ware wall plate 12.2 in, c. 1880, maker Jose F Sousa depicting crayfish, mussels, sea urchin and shells Portuguese Palissy ware was produced by the potteries of Mafra, Jose Alves Cunha, José Francisco de Sousa, Cezar, Herculano Elias, and Augusto Baptista de Carvalho.Marshall P. Katz, ''Portuguese Palissy Ware: A Survey of Ceramics from Caldas da Rainha, 1853–1920'' (1999). Twentieth-century reproductions are extremely common.John Fleming and Hugh Honour, ''The Penguin Dictionary of the Decorative Arts'' (1977), ''s.v.'' "Bernard Palissy". it is now difficult to identify which 16th-century works in the ''rustique'' manner are actually from Palissy's own workshop except by comparison with either fragments excavated in 1878 from remains of the [grotto](/source/grotto) that he certainly decorated at the [Tuileries Palace](/source/Tuileries_Palace) for [Catherine de' Medici](/source/Catherine_de'_Medici), who called him to Paris in 1566Conserved in the [Musée du Louvre](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre). or from excavations at the site of his [Paris](/source/Paris) workshop in the [Palais du Louvre](/source/Palais_du_Louvre). Many museums have now become cautious in their attributions. This distinctive style of pottery is characterized by three-dimensional modeled, often aquatic, animals such as snakes, fish, lizards, frogs, and snails arranged onto large platters (wall plates, wall platters, chargers). Typically, each component is modeled and painted individually. '''Palissy ware''' is also the name given Arnoux, Leon (1877). "Pottery, British Manufacturing Industries". Gutenberg. pp. 392–394. "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." by Minton & Co for the earthenware later known as 'majolica', decorated with a mostly new range of [coloured glazes](/source/lead-glazed_earthenware).
: "...what is now known as [majolica](/source/majolica) was a range of vibrantly coloured lead glazes launched in 1849 as Palissy ware. Only later did these become known as majolica ware". Victoria and Albert Museum.Victoria and Albert Museum, London https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11488/chestnut-dish-minton-hollins-co/ A significant collection of Palissy ware is housed in the [New Orleans Museum of Art](/source/New_Orleans_Museum_of_Art), donated by the actress and writer [Brooke Hayward](/source/Brooke_Hayward).{{Cite web|url=https://noma.org/a-new-look-for-nomas-decorative-arts-galleries/|title = A new look for NOMA's decorative arts galleries|date = 28 September 2018}} ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== * Atterbury, Paul, and Batkin, Maureen, ''Dictionary of Minton'', Antique Collectors' Club, 1990. * Arnoux, Leon, ''British Manufacturing Industries'', Gutenberg, 1877. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38953/38953-h/38953-h] * Duchin, Brooke Hayward. ''Grotesquerie: Form, Fantasy and Function in 19th Century European Ceramics; the Collection of Brook Hayward Duchin,'' New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997. ==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://majolicasociety.com/ The Majolica Society] {{DEFAULTSORT:Palissy Ware}} Category:Pottery Category:English pottery Category:American pottery Category:French pottery Category:Austrian pottery --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Palissy ware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.