Large polychrome majolica tazza with a faun supporting a shell France 19th century

This piece most likely belongs to the tradition of the workshops associated with the Tours School and the Paris School, in the lineage of artists such as Thomas Sergent and Victor Barbizet and Achille Barbizet, who perpetuated the legacy of French Renaissance ceramics during the nineteenth century. It bears direct witness to the influence of Bernard Palissy and his followers, both through its mythological repertoire—here expressed in Dionysian iconography—and through its vibrant colour palette of deep cobalt blue, green, yellow, orange and manganese, characteristic of this ceramic tradition.