Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter

An absurdly sensationalised approach to these plates by Palissy is provided by the Waldemar Januszczak in his The Renaissance Unchained series for the BBC.  The idea that Palissy was either searching for the secret of making porcelain or doing something different is a false dichotomy; and the idea that his plates are meditations on the origins of life is not Januszczak's brilliant new insight: all of this is made explicit in Palissy's own texts, which are prescibed sources for OS7. The clip on Palissy breaks off abruptly, but the full episode is currently unavailable.

A more sober and informative presentation (in French) is provided by the video below, describing an exhibition by Vincent L'Herrou and Christine Viennet assembled in the Louvre des Antiquaires in 2010 to mark the 500th anniversary of Palissy's birth. As well as Palissy's own work, the exhibition brought together three important private collections of the work of his 'followers' which had never been assembled before, including fascinating pieces of ceramics from the sixteenth century to the present day.  

Further examples of his work can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York City), the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Three small 'Palissy ware' dishes were part of the founding collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.