Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines, Moselle, France · Porcelain And Stoneware · also recorded as Utzschneider & Cie, Utzchneider

Transcribed by Igor Kukolj from Chaffers, William. Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain, 1891, Reeves & Turner, London, p.543. Scan: archive.org/details/marksmonogramson00chaf (leaf n562). Checked 22 August 2026.

Marks

The U & Cie, in a rectangle mark as engraved in Chaffers 1891, page 543 — **U & Cie, in a rectangle** · printed within a ruled rectangle · *engraved in the source*Chaffers 1891, p.543
Utzschneider & Cie. The earlier and simpler of the two marks Chaffers engraves.

The A mural crown above a shield lettered CHINA · SARREGUEMINES mark as engraved in Chaffers 1891, page 543 — **A mural crown above a shield lettered CHINA · SARREGUEMINES** · printed · *engraved in the source*Chaffers 1891, p.543
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

Page 543 of Chaffers 1891, the source for this entry — Chaffers 1891, p.543 — public domain, from archive.org/details/marksmonogramson00chaf (leaf n562). Check the transcription against it.

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.