The work at hand is a 7 /34 x 7 3/4 inch ceramic tile from the Creil-Montereau faience works, France's answer to Josiah Wedgewood. The manufacturer's mark verso dates it between 1876 and 1884. Creil-Montereau's bread and butter during this period was transfer-printed faience flatware but the company seems to have had at least a minor sideline in custom decorative tiles.
This hand-painted and glazed impressionist example is signed with the initials "G.D." They might belong to George Dreyfus who opened his own faience atelier in Paris in 1890, although this is merely speculative. The tile is in excellent condition save for a pinpoint (production) dimple and a three-inch scratch in the glaze in the upper right quarter. Neither is evident without unlikely lighting, and not very much even then.
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