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'Palissy ware' is a term for ceramics produced by, or more often in the style of, the famous French potter Bernard Palissy c1510-1590. Palissy's distinctive style was much imitated by other potters both in his own period and in the nineteenth century, and it is now difficult to identify which 16th century works are actually by Palissy's own workshop except by comparison with either fragments from the grotto he certainly decorated at the Tuileries Palace or from excavations at the site of his Paris workshop. Many museums have now become cautious in their attributions.

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This style of pottery is characterized by 3 dimensional modeled sea life, snakes, frogs, snails, and slimy things piled onto serving dishes in impressive detail. Each component of the whole is glazed individually, making each piece a cacouphony of color. The glazes are often very glossy and transluscent which completes the illusion of wet, slimy things from the sea.