Pottery Plate - Faience? French?

9" (23 cm) DIA
No backstamp or impressed marks.
Faience?
French?
Those are my best guesses - this is not an area with which I'm at all familiar ... but I want to learn.
Any guesses to age? ... or is there a way to tell how old it is?

Yes, it came with the dreaded wire hanger on it ... will carefully remove it.

Thanks for any thoughts on the plate or suggestions on where I can go (online) to learn more ....


Close up of painted design (looks better from a distance)

Close up of edge

close up of stilt mark

 

Quirky, check out Les Islettes Faience plates - there are certainly similarities!



There are a bunch of different ones on Pinterest.

 

Yes, thank you SBSVC I did see "Les Islettes" pop up often while I was trying to confirm the origin of this plate. I'll explore what that term refers to ... a geographic area? ... a factory name?
I wish I could find examples of patterns that different potteries were known to make (I suppose that's wishful thinking)

 

Sorry, I had to leave for a while there...

There's some info about Les Islettes on Google, as well as in Google Books. Here's a tiny bit:

from Wikipedia/France (translated by Google)
The name Islettes was given to the famous earthenware manufactured in the eighteenthcentury by the house Bernard.These faiences are the object of collection.The Biesme valley, where the village of Les Islettes is located, was for a long time a center of industrial production until the beginning of the 20th century: besides earthworks, there were glassworks.The old glassworks of the village, now destroyed, was located in the district of Cardina, south of the village.

from:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Islettes

and from Google Books:



from:
History of the Ceramic Art: A Descriptive and Philosophical Study of the Pottery of All Ages and All Nations (page 621)
by Albert Jacquemart, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877
https://books.google.com/books?id=e...KTAA#v=onepage&q=Les Islettes Faience&f=false

 

Probably the Exposition Universelle of 1867 is meant.

 

Thanks again, SBSVC
From that Wikipedia link I jumped down a lapin-hole and found a few nice reference sites.
This one: http://faiencerieargonne.free.fr/ was quite informative.
I now feel pretty certain that my plate originated in the Argonne region of France, and is an antique ... which is what I was curious about.

I didn't know if there were any 'fakes' or reproductions being cranked out of other countries or not ... I actually run across similar plates (usually with a rooster or different floral decoration) every so often that don't show as much age as these. There were actually two at the store, I wanted to buy one to study and learn from ... but I now want the other one, too ... it's growing on me.