Large Mafra Majolica Palissy Fish Plate

Circa 1890. 15.6ins high, 15.6ins wide, 3.5ins depth. Mafra Majolica wall plate which features an eel and three fish.

Colouration: brown, green, cream, are predominant.

The piece bears maker's marks for the Mafra pottery.

Condition

CONDITION: Good. Small flake to moth's right front leg.

KILN EFFECTS: kiln detritus caught in the glaze to the ground.

Shrinkage crack to fin.

RESTORATION. Remodelled head to eel.

Filled chip to eel's tail fin and smaller fish's gills.