Zeer oude kleurrijke tegel aan de achterzijde gemerkt:
Englisch  terra cotta; Depot 17 Rue Drouodt.
de tegel is 18x18cm.
Ik heb de volgende info kunnen vinden:
Emile Bourgeois
Paris & Marseille
1862
post WWII

Emile Bourgeois was not a pottery manufacturer - he is included here because he was a significant retailer of Stoke-on-Trent ceramics and glassware at his Paris based Grand Dépôt. Emile introduced Parisien Society to fine English ceramics.
Emile Bourgeois was born in 1832 in Normandy, France. At the age of 16 he went to work as a clerk in a china shop in Paris.
In 1856 he moved to London and became a salesman for major English pottery manufacturers, primarily those based in Stoke-on-Trent.
1860 - Emile returned to France and in 1862, at the age of 30, he took out a lease on space at 17 Rue Drouot in Paris - initialy a modest outlet for English ceramic ware. Around a year later, at 21 Rue Drouot, he opened 'Le Grand Dépôt'. Soon the store included French porcelain and earthenware often produced to Emile's own specifications.
In 1879 a branch store was opened at 33 Rue St. Féreol in Marseille and later the Paris business expanded to include the adjacent building No. 23.
The business grew and sold decorative and useful porcelain and earthenware as well as crystal glassware. It advertised itself as the largest house in the world for table, desert and crystal services.
Emile retired in 1905. The business continued until after the Second World War.