PALISSY SNAKE CHARGER
 
PALISSY SNAKE CHARGER
19th Century Portuguese palissy plate or charger with a large coiled brown snake biting a brown lizard, also a speckled green-brown lizard and blue -yellow moth. Modeled by the skilled ceramists, Francisco Gomes de Avellar, potter in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
Impressed: D'Avellar
9.5"w x 9.5"d
Portugal, 19th C.

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