Candlestick. Any ideas please ?

Candlestick holder / ashtray

Any help is much appreciated.

I'm not convinced it's a date; it looks pretty recent to me. I agree, Continental, or maybe further East, judging by the decoration

It is an ash-tray, the French are great smokers, bless 'em.

Colonial French Algiers, maybe

I would guess spanish

I agree (ref date) Naomi; I have had it for a good few years (under 10), but it felt fairly new when I bought it.
Thank you all for your inputs folks, much appreciated :-)

That green glaze. Got a hint of Roger Capron of Vallauris France.

It was the green that attracted me to it in the first place

the green is more like Punter

Brain actually clicked into gear.
Robert Picault maybe.https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=robert+picault+pottery&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMn_bb9PnXAhUlIcAKHdInAk0QsAQIJg&biw=1093&bih=521

I haven't seen that mark on a Picault pot before

also Paul guessed Spanish and he knows his Picault better than I do

no way is that Picault