Palissy the Potter by Henry Morley - 9781108078061

Palissy the PotterThe Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes, his Labours and Discoveries in Art and Science\nAuthor(s): Henry Morley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108078061, 978-1108078061\nSynopsis\nThis two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy ([url] was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissy's extraordinary art had been brought before the Victorian public by Minton's highly decorated 'Palissy wares'. Henry Morley [tel] trained in medicine but later became an author and editor, writing for Charles Dickens among others. Here he gathers together all the material then available about Palissy, including the potter's own writings and a contemporary biography. Palissy was among the many European ceramicists who attempted to reproduce Chinese porcelain; his lack of success drove his family into poverty, but .