Lot Details
Lot 75
French Palissy Ware Gaping Serpent and Shell Ewer
School of Paris, perhaps Victor Barbizet or Thomas-Victor Sergent, circa 1870
Modeled as an emerging snake extending with wide open mouth from a green studded shell, balanced on four broad leaves, above an oval cobalt-blue ground foot, height 15 3/8 inches; Together with a Thomas-Victor Sergent French Palissy Ware Majolica Fantastic-Dragon Fish Caviar Bowl. Circa 1880, of serpent form with curled heavily scaled tail, the open backed body glazed in shades of cobalt-blue and emerald-green, on brown feet and with an ochre-yellow lower lip, signed with black painted T.. initials mark, height 2 3/4 inches, length 8 inches.
Reference (French Palissy Ware Gaping Serpent and Shell Ewer):
KL002759P (as Barbizet). New Orleans Museum of Art, Grotesquerie: form, fantasy and function in 19th century European ceramics: The Collection of Brooke Hayward Duchin, pp. 12 & 28, cat. 11.
Literature (Thomas-Victor Sergent French Palissy Ware Majolica Fantastic-Dragon Fish Caviar Bowl):
KL001644.
C The Joan Stacke Graham Majolica Collection
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