Majolica Snakes

Mafra portuguese palissy majolica wall plate which features a snake, a small crocodile-like lizard, lizards and a toad.

A nice snake handled urn with nicely detailed painting by the venerable majolica firm of Cantagalli.

Mafra Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features A snake, toad, tortoise and two salamanders.

Mafra Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a lizard in a burrow, defending itself from a snake.

Jose A Cunha Majolica wall plate which features a snake biting a lizards tail, as the lizard retreats into a burrow.

Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a snake, a lizard in a burrow, moths, grubs and a frog.

French Palissy Majolica wall platter which features a crayfish, snake, lizard, insects, shells and leaves.

French Palissy Majolica footed jardiniere, which features branch handles with snakes coiled around.

Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a snake attacking a lizard.

Rare 19th Century Majolica Palissy Coiled Snake. 5.3 inches by 4 inches.

A Minton Majolica Large Turquoise Ground Jardinière Designed by Gottfried Semper (German 1803 -1879), the ovid-form body applied with entwined snakes forming the handles, the rim wit...

Jose A Cunha Majolica wall plate which features a snake attacking a lizard.

Antique French Majolica Cache Pot Planter Jardiniere Sarreguemines Snake Handle & Lions.

Majolica birds, nest and snake wall pocket plaque, circa 1880.

Mafra Majolica wall plate which features a lizard attacking a snake.

French Palissy Ware Majolica Trompe l'oeil humidor/tobacco jar by Thomas-Victor Sergent, (French, 1830-1890). The reverse signed with the impressed initials 'T.S.' for Thomas Sergent...

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake searching through mossy tuft, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, worm, caterpillar, ...

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake and large lizard searching through mossy tuft, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, wo...

Beautiful pair of Majolica vase lamps with snake handles with frog, lizard, snail, butterfly and leaf decorations.

A Superb Example of a Majolica Palissy Charger of generous proportions (an impressive 12” in diameter) and of outstanding quality.

Late 19th century French Majolica vase with stalactite, alligator, snake, frog, bee and leaf decorations.

French Palissy Majolica wall plaque which features a snake, frog, lizard and insects surrounded by a leafy border.

Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a large, puffed-up frog (or toad) in the centre.

Claudia Ciotti for Deruta 'Hommage to Carracci' large Italian majolica centerpiece bowl with snake handles, hand-painted with figural scenes, marked, signed and dated on the bottom.

Pair of very fine quality and large 19 century Italian Roman Neoclassical Majolica Vases with snake form handles.

The beautiful ceramic planter, with heavy relief, features nature motifs including a bird, nest, snake, frog, leaves, tree trunk and reeds, very much in the manner of Palissy.

The beautiful ceramic planter, with heavy relief, features nature motifs including a bird, nest, snake, frog, leaves, tree trunk and reeds, very much in the manner of Palissy.

Jose Francisco de Sousa Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a snake, a lizard and a lizard hiding in a burrow.

French French Palissy Majolica figure which features a coiled snake. Colouration: grey, brown, yellow, are predominant.

Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a frog, snake, lizard, beetle and moths.

French 19th Majolica jardiniere in a shape of wood box decorated with leaves, on the front a bird with his nest, a snake looking on the nest with eggs.

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, worm, caterpillar, butterfly, frog, crocodile.

A fabulous large antique Palissy Ware 'grotesque' pottery majolica plate, made by Manuel Mafra (1830-1905), Portugal, Circa 1880.

Monumental pair of Majolica Palissy Cobalt blue ground Medusa vases, School of Paris, circa 1870, each of waisted cylindrical form, with snakes coiled on the simulated branch handles...

Fine pair of Palissy of candlesticks signed Thomas Sergent, circa 1880. The pieces are Trompe l'oeil wood with leaves decorated with snakes and lizards. Thomas Victor Sergent was a...

Manuel Mafra Palissy ware majolica cabbage form cup and saucer with snake handle, ca. 1880, the saucer impressed: M.

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake searching through mossy tuft, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, worm, caterpillar.

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake searching through mossy tuft, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, worm, caterpillar, ...

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake and large lizard searching through mossy tuft, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, wo...

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate with large snake searching through mossy tuft and lizard hiding in the moss, signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) w...

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style signed Jose Alves Cunha (Caldas da Rainha) with snake, worm, caterpillar, butterfly, frog.

Antique 19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate. Plate focuses on large snake and large lizard, with worm, caterpillar, butterfly, and lizard surrounding in the brown an...

19th century Portuguese Majolica Palissy style plate. with large snake trying to bite back of large frog.

Barbizet (attributed) French Palissy Majolica platter which features three crayfish, a snake, a lizard, seashells and leaves.

This finely detailed Palissy style Portuguese plate is the creation of famed ceramicist Manuel Mafra (1829-1905). Mafra championed the 'Palissy style' in the 19th century through his...

This Italian late 19th century Renaissance style hand painted faience allegorical snake handled vase is the artwork signed by Ginori, one of the most important Italian porcelain and ...

Antique Victorian brass trivet, stand, tray Majolica Plate, England 1890, H57 Solid brass Majolica tile Square brass shape with Majolica tile Ornate decoration with snake shape...

An excellent quality and condition, rare large size, Minton Majolica neoclassical designed snake handled jardinière circa 1876 Designed by the celebrated Architect Gottfried Semper.

A wonderful quality Majolica figure of a coiled snake by the celebrated 19th century Palissy Revivalist potter, George Pull, circa 1860.