RARE: FROM NEUCHÈZE. School of Tours. Trompe-l’œil decoration with fish. Palissy followers, 19th century.

Large and very rare hexagonal dish in polychrome earthenware with trompe l'oeil fish decoration and high relief (also called "rustic figulines")
The rim is in neo-renaissance style, it is animated with stylized motifs and decorated with scallops, the edge of the dish representing a rope.
Exceptional finesse of execution and technical mastery.
This large, very decorative dish is part of the Tours school, it is signed in the De Neuchèze decor.
De NEUCHÈZE is a neo-palissean ceramist of the 19th century, his productions are very rare, the dish certainly dates from the second half of the 19th century.

We find a reference to this artist in an article by Christian Gendron (curator of the Niort museum), "The imitators of Bernard Palissy in the 19th century", throughout the article after having toured the ceramicists who followed Bernard Palissy such as Avisseau, Landais, Chauvigné, Brard, Carré de Busserole, all part of the Tours school, the author specifies: "There is still much to discover among the ceramicists of Touraine; some names are only known from very rare pieces, often remarkable; this is how we cite: Doctor Octave Deniau, C. Delperiez represented only at the Plessis-lès-Tours museum, or De NEUCHÈZE."
We find a large dish by De NEUCHÈZE in white monochrome earthenware at the Museum of Fine Arts in La Rochelle.

The dish is in very good general condition and original. Dimensions: 55.5 cm x 37.5 cm

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Very neat packing

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