19th Majolica Palissy Snake and Lizard Wall Platter Jose Alves Cunha

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

19th century Portuguese Palissy plate with large alligators, lizards and turtles searching through mossy tuft. Indecipherable mark, probably Mafra, Ca...

Very large and heavy, 18th Century or earlier hand-painted Italian majolica glazed pottery charger plate depicting Mary. Central polychrome painted scene of Mary, with geometric bord...

19th century hand painted Italian charger featuring three cherubs interacting with another lying on a bed of wheat stalks under a scenic skyscape. Beau...

Antique Majolica Palissy Portuguese wall platter signed Jose Alves Cunha, very unusual piece with a rat bitten by a large snake, caterpillar, butterfl...

Mafra Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall plate which features a lizard in a burrow, defending itself from a snake. Also, a frog peering out of a burrow and another lizard retreating in...

Majolica Palissy Snake & Turtle Wall Platter Circa 1920. Snake , frog,turtle,shells,leaves, crawfish. 15.5" W by 12.8" H

This Jose A Cunha Portuguese Palissy Majolica plate features a snake, spider, frog, caterpillar, and butterfly on green shredded clay ground. The piece bears the maker's marks for Jose A Cunha pottery. Palissy ware is a style of ceramics that is also known as rusticware due to their earth-toned palettes and naturalistic plant and animal scenes that are cast to it. The style was coined in reference to the 16th century French potter Bernard Palissy and experienced a significant revival in the 19th century thanks to Charles-Jean Avisseau. It's strongest revival however was in Portugal where it was produced by the potteries of Mafra, Jose A. Cunha, Alves, José Francisco de Sousa...