Creil-Montereau faience

Creil-Montereau faience is a faïence fine, a lead-glazed earthenware on a white body originating in the French communes of Creil, Oise and of Montereau, Seine-et-Marne, but carried forward under a unified direction since 1819.

From 1755 to 1762 these kilns were operated by Etienne-François Mazois (1719–1762)[2] who intended to rival the increasingly successful Queen's ware perfected by Josiah Wedgwood, that was driving the traditional tin-glazed earthenwares of France out of business.

Jacques Bagnall was born in 1762 at Burslem in the heart of the Staffordshire Potteries; in 1784 he was in France, working as a modeller in the manufactory of "English stoneware" (grès anglais) at Douai.

As director of design at Creil he was responsible for a splendid body of work, sometimes copying the neoclassical styles of Wedgwood and other fashionable English makers.

From 1811 the director of the pottery at Creil was Charles Gaspard Alexandre Saint-Cricq Casaux; in 1819 he purchased the works at Montereau, and fused the two in 1840 as Creil-Montereau.

The Vernons' successor, Henry Félix Anatole Barluet (born in 1802 at l'Aigle, Orne) was a local man, whose mother was a Lebeuf.

Félix Bracquemond designed the Service Rousseau , c. 1867, for the editor François-Eugène Rousseau, credited as the first expression of Japonisme in France. [ 1 ]
Transfer-printed and painted plate of faïence fine signed Charles Hamlet, Creil-Montereau, c. 1876-1884, (Musée Gallé-Juille)
Ewer and basin with transfer-printed decor of diaper-pattern, Creil-Montereau (Musée Gallé-Juille at Creil)
Faïence fine plate one of a monochromatic transfer-printed series commemorating events of Greek independence , Montereau, ca 1830.
Plate in "Flora" pattern (here, bindweed), end of the 19th century