French Marks

France Dates of mark Mark Quimper Bosquet mid-19th century Quimper Eloury c.1860 Quimper Dumaine c.1886-1926 Sarreguemines Utzchneider and Company Before 1890 Sevres interlaced L’s mark

Sèvres

Porcelain has been made in Sèvres, France, since 1769, when the Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine de France was established. Soft paste porcelain had been made in nearby Vincennes, France, since 1743, but that factory merged with the new one in Sèvres. Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Sèvres porcelains were known for their jeweled decorations and for […]

Sarreguemines (Utzschneider and Company)

Utzchneider and Company, a porcelain factory, made ceramics in Sarreguemines, France, starting in 1770. Transfer-printed wares, often picturing French peasants, and majolica were made in the nineteenth century. This 4-inch-high mustard jar is decorated with a colored transfer of French peasants at a fair. It is marked Obernai, the pattern name, and Faienceries Sarreguemines. The […]

Quimper

Tin-glazed, hand painted pottery has been made in Quimper (pronounced kam pair), a town in the French province of Brittany, since the late seventeenth century. Three firms worked in Quimper, and the names and marks have changed because of marriages and mergers. The earliest firm, founded in 1685 by Jean Baptiste Bousquet, was known as […]

Picasso Designed Ceramics

Pablo Picasso became interested in ceramics in 1946 when he visited the Madoura Pottery in the south of France. The next year he returned and began designing, making, and decorating tiles, dishes, pots, vases, and other ceramic objects. Between 1947 and 1971, Picasso created 633 different designs at the Madoura workshop—plates with designs reminiscent of […]

Limoges

Fine quality hard paste porcelain has been produced in Limoges, France, since the late 1700s. In America Haviland china is the best known of the Limoges factories, but fine porcelain was made by many Limoges firms, including Coiffe, Delinieres & Company, William Guerin and Company, A. Lanternier, Jean Pouyat, and Martial Redon & Company. Collectors […]

Haviland

Haviland china was the “company” dish set of your grandmother’s or great-grandmother’s day. Many complete sets of Haviland can still be found, and many are still in use. Four generations of the Haviland family made tablewares. David and Daniel Haviland founded D.G. and D. Haviland Co. in New York City in 1838. They imported tableware […]