Modeled with an eel to the center, the border with frogs, shells, crayfish, newts and plants
25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide

Acquired from J. Rochelle Thomas, New York, December 1965 (as Whieldon).

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, pp. 113-114, no. 120.

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For a similar example, see M.P. Katz and R. Lehr, Palissy Ware: Nineteenth-Century French Ceramists from Avisseau to Renoleau, Highlands, NJ, 1996, p. 146, cat. no. 192 and p. 148, cat. no. 198.