Another class of designs used by Palissy were plates, tazze and the like, with geometrical patterns moulded in relief and pierced through, forming open network. A few enamelled earthenware statuettes have been attributed to him; but it is doubtful whether he ever worked in the round. His productions have always been highly valued, and in the 17th century attempts were made, both at Delft and Lambeth, to adapt his "rustic" dishes with the reliefs of animals and human figures. These imitations are very blunt in modelling and coarsely painted. They are generally marked on the back in blue with initials and a date—showing them to be honest adaptations to a different medium, not attempts at forgery. Between 1840 and 1870, copies of Palissy's "Bestiole" dishes were made with great skill and success by Avisseau of Tours, and afterwards by Pull of Paris. The well-known potter, Barbizet, who set out to make "Palissys" for the million, flooded France with rude copies that should never have deceived anyone.
The best collections of Palissy's ware are those in the museums of the Louvre, the Hotel Cluny, and Sevres; and in England those in the Victoria and Albert museum, the British Museum and the Wallace Collection.
Palissy wrote with vigour and simplicity on a great variety of subjects, such as agriculture, natural philosophy, religion and especially in his L'Art de terre, where he gives an account of his processes and how he discovered them.
See Delecluze, B. Palissy (1838) ; Marryat, Pottery (185o, pp. 31 seq.) ; A. Dumesnil, B. Palissy, le potier de terre (1851) ; Morley, Life of Palissy (1855) ; Enjubault, L'Art ceramique de B. Palissy (1858) ; H. Delange, Monographie de l'oeuvre de B. Palissy (1862) ; A. Tainturier, Terres imaillees de Palissy (1863) ; Audiat, Etude sur la vie . . . de B. Palissy (1868). For Palissy as a Huguenot, see Rossignol, Des Protestantes illustres, No. iv. (1861). The best English account of Palissy as a potter is that given by M. L. Solon in his History and Description of the Old French Faience (19°3).