Sarreguemines
Sarreguemines, Moselle, France · Porcelain And Stoneware · also recorded as Utzschneider & Cie, Utzchneider
Marks
Plate I🔗
Utzschneider & Cie. The earlier and simpler of the two marks Chaffers engraves.
Plate II🔗
Chaffers introduces this as 'the mark at present used', of a more complicated character than the one above — so the elaborate armorial is the LATER of the two, which is the opposite of the usual assumption that ornate means early.
What the source records
- Messrs Utzchneider & Co were, at the time Chaffers wrote, important manufacturers of porcelain pâte tendre and of biscuit figures and groups.Chaffers 1891 · p.543
- They made services painted in the English style, frequently decorated with transfer pictures, and artistic white stoneware.Chaffers 1891 · p.543
- A bust in biscuit of the founder of the fabrique, François Paul Utzchneider, by F. François, sculptor to the firm, dated 1858, was in the Sèvres Museum.Chaffers 1891 · p.543
- Chaffers describes the works as still maintaining a high character for porcelain and biscuit and as one of the most important fabriques in France.Chaffers 1891 · p.543
Why this differs from other listings
Chaffers dates the two marks relative to each other in passing: the plain U & Cie rectangle comes first, and the crowned armorial shield is 'the mark at present used' in 1891. That ordering is useful and counter-intuitive, because the elaborate heraldic mark looks older than the plain one and is not.
The source page
What this entry does not establish
- Chaffers gives no founding date for the works and no absolute range for either mark. 'At present used' means as of 1891.
- Both plates here were cropped by hand rather than by the automatic tool, which split the shield from its crown and truncated the rectangle. The crops were checked against the page image before publication.
Questions
What marks does Chaffers 1891 record for Sarreguemines?
2 on p.543: U & Cie, in a rectangle; A mural crown above a shield lettered CHINA · SARREGUEMINES. 2 of them are engraved in the source and are reproduced above; the rest are described in words only.
What dates does the source give?
None. Chaffers dates no mark on this page, so this entry gives no date either.
Where was Sarreguemines?
Sarreguemines, Moselle, France. The source also records the name as Utzschneider & Cie, Utzchneider.
Can this page tell me what my piece is worth?
No. This site reports what one nineteenth-century reference recorded, and cites the page so you can check it. It does not authenticate objects, value them, or offer an opinion on a specific piece.
