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Dish

1869 (made), 1585 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pull, Georges (made)
Francois Briot (made)
Place of origin
France (Made)
France (made)

Copy of the Temperance Basin, Moulded (or mould-pressed) earthenware with coloured glazes.

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Object details

Categories
Cast Courts
Copies and Facsimiles
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Moulded (or mould-pressed) earthenware with coloured glazes
Earthenware
Moulded
Brief description
Copy of the Temperance Basin, made by Georges Pull, Vaugirard, France, 1869.
Physical description
Copy of the Temperance Basin, Moulded (or mould-pressed) earthenware with coloured glazes.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 42.85cm (Note: Converted from Register)
  • Height: 3.8cm
Gallery label
(30.11.18)
Cast of
The Temperance Basin
Georges Pull, 1869
Georges Pull was one of many 19th-century artists influenced by the 16th-century French potter, Bernard Palissy. While Palissy was famed for ‘rustic’ ceramics incorporating life casts of animals and plants, his reproduction of the Temperance Basin was also imitated throughout the 19th century. Pull sold his reproductions from 1856, at a time when electrotypes and photographs of the 16thcentury versions were shown at international exhibitions.
Cast earthenware with coloured glazes
Signed ‘PULL’
Vaugirard, France
Museum no. 1080-1871
Label for 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900', Gallery 101, de-canted March 2017:

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Dish: 'Temperance'
1869

Georges Pull was one of the many French potters influenced by the work of the extrodianary 16th-century French ceramicist Bernard Palissy. From 1856 Pull worked with his sculptor son at perfecting copies of Palissy's work. This dish is based on an original that Palissy moulded from a pewter dish made around 1590 by François Briot.

France, Vaugirard; made by Georges Pull
Earthenware, moulded in low relief and decorated in coloured glazes

Museum no. 1080-1871'
PLATEAU
Georges Pull (1810-1889)

Maker
France (Vaugirard): 1869

Earthenware

moulded in low relief

and decorated with

coloured glazes

1080-1871

Georges Pull was one of many French potters influenced by the works of Bernard Palissy (1510-1590), who achieved the status of national hero by about 1850. From 1856 Pull worked with his sculptor son at perfecting copies such as this, modelling, glazing and supervising the firing personally. The Palissy original was itself moulded directly from Francois Briot's pewter "Temperance" dish about 1590: examples of both are in this museum. The pattern shows Temperance surrounded by the four elements, and the seven liberal arts with Minerva around the rim.
Object history
Bought from Senor Riano per Weisweiller & Bauer, Madrid
Copy of the temperance basin made in 1869 by Georges Pull in Vaugirard France. The original was made in in around 1585 by the French model carver and medallist, François Briot.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1080-1871

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Record createdSeptember 8, 1998
Record URL
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