Antique Creil & Montereau Flora salad bowl in earthenware decorated with bindweed ca.1880

This rare and very old salad bowl is made of fine earthenware from creil montereau. This "flora" model dates from the 19th century - it was a great success for the manufacture presented at the 1855 universal exhibition in paris. It is signed by the brand "creil et montereau - lm & cie" "flora" for the creil montereau earthenware factory managed by barluet between 1876 and 1884. Round in shape, this salad bowl is decorated with a delightful cobalt blue decoration: climbing flowers - bindweed. This salad bowl has been well used and I report shocks and traces of grease on the bottom, as well as chips, including a significant one on the foot. It measures 12 cm X 25 cm in height.