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[Bernard Palissy inventor of enamelled pottery] – Vintage Print

[Bernard Palissy inventor of enamelled pottery], 1850 — historic print
[Bernard Palissy inventor of enamelled pottery], 1850. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Bernard Palissy, the 16th-century French potter, is the subject of this color woodcut, which illustrates the story in its caption that he burned his own chairs to keep his furnace going while he searched for a workable enamel glaze. Palissy, who lived around 1510 to 1590, is known for rustic dishes decorated with lifelike frogs, lizards and leaves. The sheet is a Japanese woodblock print on hōsho paper, credited to Takizawa Bakin and dated 1850, and it entered the Library of Congress as part of Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne's 1930 gift of Japanese prints.

Created / published1850
CreatorTakizawa Bakin 1767-1848.
Medium1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33 x 23 cm. (block) 37 x 24.5 cm. (sheet).
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Annotation written in pencil on mount: Palissy Bernard c.1570-1589 (Fr.). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 167; 47623a (white label); LC2585; typescript caption on mount: Bernard Palissy inventor of enamelled pottery burns chairs to keep furnace going. Earlier control number: 236.3-5. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPalissy Bernard 1510?-1590. Inventors--1850-1900. Pottery--1850-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-JFP-227700

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