A dish of the same model (MR2293) is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, purchased by the museum in 1825 with the collection of Edmé Antoine Durand (1768-1835), (see Louis Courajod, La Collection Durand et ses séries du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance au Musée du Louvre, 1888, p. 37, no. 52 and Léonard Amico, ‘Les ceamiques rustiques authentiques de Bernard Palissy, Revue de l'Art, no. 78, 1987, pp. 63-64 and Léonard Amico, A la recherche du Paradis Terrestre, Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs,1996, no. 97, p. 110). Until very recently, it was thought to have been made by Bernard Palissy himself around 1565. Léonard Amico even established a group of authentic Bernard Palissy pieces based on this dish. The author has noted the presence of three circles on the surface of the Louvre dish, which correspond to traces of firing separators and which he considers to be a characteristic detail on Bernard Palissy's dishes. These same circles appear on the present dish.

In a recent paper, however, Jean-Claude Plaziat argued that authentic Palissy production contained only plaster casts of contemporary marine and freshwater shells, whereas some of the artefacts prominently displayed in museums, including the dish in the Louvre, contain plaster casts of fossil shells. Paziat, therefore, suggests a later date for production of the 'rustiques figulines' containing casts of such fossil shells, positing that they were not produced before the 17th century. (Jean-Claude Plaziat, 'Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) and the French Geologists: a critical reappraisal concerning the founding naturalist and his rustic ceramics', Bulletin de la société archéologique de France, tome 182, no. 3, 2011, pp. 255-267).

COMPARABLE LITERATURE
Alfred Tainturier, Les terres émaillées de Bernard Palissy inventeur des rustiques figulines, Paris, 1863, p. 72.
Louis Courajod, La Collection Durand et ses séries du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance au Musée du Louvre, 1888, p. 37, no. 52.
Léonard Amico, 'les céramiques rustiques authentiques de Bernard Palissy', Revue de l’Art, 78, 1987, pp. 63-64.
Léonard. Amico, A la recherche du Paradis Terrestre, Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs, 1996, no. 97, p. 110.
Isabelle Perrin, Les techniques céramiques de Bernard Palissy, thèse sous la direction de M. Jean Guillaume, Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Lille, 1998, p. 161-163, 165, 307.
A. Bouquillon, J. Castaing, F. Barbe, S.R. Paine, B. Christman, T. Crépin-Leblond, A.H. Heuer, 'Lead-Glazed Rustiques Figulines (Rustic Ceramics) of Bernard Palissy (1510–90) and his Followers', Archaeometry, 2017, vol. 59, issue 1, pp. 73, 77, 79-81, Fig. S2.
Jean-Claude Plaziat, 'Bernard Palissy (1510-1590) and the French Geologists: a critical reappraisal concerning the founding naturalist and his rustic ceramics', Bulletin de la société archéologique de France, tome 182, no. 3, 2011, pp. 255-267.
Jean-Claude Plaziat, 'L’identification des moulages des coquilles fossiles et des organismes actuels des rustiques figulines: un apport naturaliste à la caractérisation des ateliers successifs de Palissy et de ses émules', Bernard Palissy: nouveaux regards sur la céramique française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Technè, 47, 2019, pp. 164-187.