$ 800.00

Manuel Mafra 19th century Portuguese Palissyware plate with three colorful lizards and a toad circling on a mossy frit ground. Marked base, pierced for hanging.

Very good

1860-90's

7.5"

Manuel Cipriano Gomes Mafra is credited with starting the Portuguese Palissy ware revival in the late 1850s and was the dominant Caldas Da Rainha ceramist for 30 years and the first to establish an international market for Portuguese Palissy ware. After Mafra's works were commissioned by the king Don Fernando II the crown was authorized as part of his mark.