FAJANS MANUFACTURING IN CHOISY LE ROI, Fruit platter with base with handles (giardiniera?).

Faience (fine faience), lead (lead-borax) glaze tinted with ceramic paints (in celadon and green);
minor losses at base handles, with traces of gluing; height approx. 17.5 cm, base 56 x 24.5 cm;
Signed (underneath) in black calligraphic monogram of overlapping letters: Choisy / Le Roi, along the end of the letter "y": FRANCE, impressions 1578 (mold-model number?) / P I...? (further illegible);
France, Ile-de-France region, Val-de Marne department: Choisy Le Roi, faience (fine faience) factory, late 19th century.
Shallow rectangular bowl with rounded corners, with diagonally offset volute legs and on an openwork support along the underside of the base; joined to a flat base on low legs, with handles at the shorter sides. Plastic and relief decoration in Neo-Renaissance style: four satyr masks, fruit festoons and acanthus leaf motifs at handles with relief band.
The vessel, also referred to as French majolica, was created at Choisy Le Roi, during the years of artistic direction of the faience house by renowned Louis sculptor and designer Robert Carrier-Belleuse (after 1889).
Carrier-Belleuse was the author of many of the label's designs, especially ceramic busts and decorative vases.