Creil And Monterau - Earthenware Asparagus Dish

This asparagus dish was made in slip at the Creil et Montereau earthenware factory at the beginning of the 20th century, as indicated by the hollow stamp underneath.
The Creil-Montereau earthenware factory is one of the many ceramic factories to have collaborated with the store for the production of works. Founded in 1719, the pottery factory of Montereau merged with that of Creil in 1840. The company name became in 1841, “Lebeuf, Milliet et Cie”. In July 1876, after the death of Louis Lebeuf, Henri Félix Anatole Barluet, director of Creil, became general manager of the Société de la Manufacture de Creil et Montereau, which then took the name of "Barluet et Cie" until his death. de Barluet in 1884. The second half of the 19th century was a period of expansion and success for the factory, which won numerous prizes and medals at the major exhibitions that marked the century. It was the fire that broke out on the Creil site in 1895 that marked the beginning of the factory's decline with production concentrated in Montereau and creations that ceased to be renewed. The earthenware factory was bought in 1920 by the Choisy-le-Roi factory, directed by Hippolyte Boulenger, which led to the change of the brand to HBCM (Hippolyte Boulenger Creil Montereau), before closing definitively in 1955.