Description

Antique French ironstone fruit stand or cake stand footed dish Creil Montereau Flora Aubepine, blue transferware with hawthorn, Terre de Fer, dating circa 1850.

DESCRIPTION:
Antique French earthenware ironstone – Terre de Fer fruit stand or compotier, footed dish signed by the famous manufacture Creil Montereau, rare Flora Aubepine design, transfer decoration in blue and white, this mark had been in use from 1840 to 1876. Decoration of this antique fruit stand depicts hawthorn flowers in shades of blue.

Some informations about the history of creil Montereau manufacture:

The pottery of Creil (Oise), famous enough to be quoted by Gustave Flaubert in his book “L’education sentimentale”, was founded in 1797. After several bankruptcies, production increases in the early nineteenth century, probably thanks to its new owner, St. Cricq Casale, and the arrival of Jacques Bagnall in the management team.

In 1840, the year St. Cricq Casale dies, the Creil factory merges with the one of Montereau (Seine et Marne). The company becomes “Creil and Montereau Faïenceries” under the name Lebeuf, Milliet & Co. (LM & Co.), until 1876. The production of the two earthenware factories remains similar until 1895, the year the factory in Creil closes after a fire. Production with the mark Creil et Montereau continues until 1920. Between 1920 and 1955, the mark “Hippolyte Boulanger Creil et Montereau” (HBCM) is used.

HOW TO USE IT:
Very lovely antique French earthenware fruit stand or compotier, footed dish to add to a collection or to use as decoration, especially if you love blue and white earthenware with transfer decorations!

CONDITIONS:
Good conditions, to signal craqueleure effect and some tea staining to the central area, small manufacturing defaults under the foot, but nothing detracting at all.

MEASURES:
Diameter is 9″ (23 cm), 3 3/4″ (9.5 cm) tall.