Felix Tissot Taxco Fantasia platter 14.5" Spatter MCM stoneware VINTAGE MEXICO!

Félix Tissot Taxco Fantasia Platter 14.5 - Manganese Spatter Stoneware - Mid-Century 🦌 Félix Tissot Taxco Fantasia Platter 🦌 14.5 Manganese Spatter Stoneware | Mid-Century Modern | Signed Rare Speckled Teal Glaze | Screen-Printed Wildlife Design | French-Mexican Studio Pottery A stunning large-format platter from Félix Tissot's celebrated Fantasia series, featuring his signature manganese spatter glaze in speckled teal over a silkscreened design of stylized quetzal birds, prancing deer, and sunburst flowers. This is the 14.5 × 8.5 oval—the centerpiece size from his dinnerware sets, hand-signed on the reverse Tissot / Taxco. This isn't the smooth glossy variant you see everywhere—this is the textured spatter-glaze stoneware that mid-century collectors actively hunt for. It has the organic, volcanic aesthetic that defined 1960s California and Mexican modernist ceramics. Why the Speckled Glaze Matters Not all Tissot Fantasia pieces are created equal. There are two distinct glaze styles in this series: * Smooth Glossy (Common): High-shine turquoise over white clay—clean, tourist-friendly, mass appeal * Manganese Spatter (Yours): Textured teal with dark brown/black speckles on buff stoneware—the MCM collector favorite Why spatter is more desirable: In the mid-1960s, Tissot began experimenting with lava glazes to appeal to the California modernist market (think Gump's San Francisco, West Coast interior designers). The manganese spatter technique