Object Description
A Pair of Large Sarreguemines Majolica Sang de Boeuf Glazed Earthenware Jardinières On Pedestals.
Each bowl with moulded leaf decoration, lion head handles and Bleu de Deck interior. On a baluster socle with square foot. The tapering pedestals with neoclassical ornament of foliage, masks and birds, corned by rams heads above paw feet.
Impressed stamp ‘SARREGUEMINES / 849 / 227’, and ‘4 / 01’
The urns are Form Number 849 called ‘Coupe ovale Porphyre’.
The stamp ‘4 / 01’ identifies a date of manufacture as April 1901.
The large urns on pedestals in faience ceramic (tin-glazed earthenware pottery known as majolica) are designed in the Renaissance Revival style and representative of the most magnificent creations made at Sarreguemines.
Sarreguemines was awarded for producing brilliantly-glazed ceramic creations. Most impressive are their pedestals, jardinieres, fountains, and cachepots which exhibit an extraordinary degree of ceramic dexterity.
France, Dated 1901.