Pair Brard Palissy Majolica Palissy Fish Plates

Circa 1880. Tallest is 9.1ins high, 9.1ins wide, 1.2ins depth. Pair of Brard French Palissy Majolica plates which feature fish and seashells placed out on a white ground.

One of the plates, unusually, also features a langoustine.

Hand painted, blue-glazed geometric borders around the edges.

Colouration: white, blue, yellow, are predominant.

Condition

CONDITION: Plate 1: Good. KILN EFFECTS: shrinkage crack to one fish's tail;

small firing pits to the fish.

RESTORATION. Filled chip to one fish's tail fin.

Plate 2: Good. KILN EFFECTS: patchy glaze application to the langoustine.

 

RESTORATION. One langoustine antenna remodelled.

One fish tail fin remodelled.

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