Palissy

In an early-nineteenth-century book — attributed to Mayer Oppenheim — about English-style pottery, prominent references are made to Torbern Bergman, Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, René Réaumur, Johann Heinrich Pott, and Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, all authors of publications about ceramics manufacture or about some aspect of that subject. 10 Oppenheim mentions the potters Josiah Wedgwood and Bernard Palissy, names a connoisseur would recognize although neither was then alive.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

His misery was of an intensity and kind with that of Palissy, in these struggles with an adverse fate.

Two on a Tower 2006

This door stood buried as it were in a wall, and opened on to a narrow passage which ran across a so-called garden, or front yard, containing on each side two iron receptacles for geraniums, painted to look like Palissy ware, and a naked female on a pedestal.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Palissy, encroaches by degrees on the capital of his fortune, which melts away in his furnace and alembics.

Balzac 2003

We owned a rare Palissy dish from the sixteenth century, one of the very first pieces of colored European porcelain.

Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

Years later, I would see an almost identical Palissy at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.

Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

The sound of the hydraulic fountain engineered by Palissy forced them to raise their voices.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The sound of the hydraulic fountain engineered by Palissy forced them to raise their voices.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Next, Laure was to be visited, as the "Biographie," which had formerly belonged to old M. de Balzac, was at her house; and the works on Palissy mentioned in that must be compared carefully with those already noted down; and if fresh names were found, another visit must be paid to the librarian.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

Look at Palissy, the great French potter, who found out how to make porcelain glaze.

The Drone A Play in Three Acts Rutherford Mayne