Cunha Palissy Majolica Snake, Lizard & Insect Plate

Circa 1890. 9.8ins high, 9.8ins wide, 3.9ins depth. Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a snake attacking a lizard in a burrow.

Surrounded by a butterfly, grubs, a worm, a lizard and a beetle. Colouration: green, ochre, blue, are predominant.

The piece bears maker's marks for the Jose A Cunha pottery.

 

Condition

CONDITION: Good. KILN EFFECTS: shrinkage crack to snakes back.

RESTORATION. Stabilised and retouched crack to footrim on underside.

Filled chips to beetle's legs and moth's head.

Remodelled tip to lizard's tail.

 

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