Antique Blue Transferware Plate
2403-266
(Click the Item No. for an inquiry)9 in diameter
Price: $48.00
Location : Baton Rouge
This lovely transferware plate was produced by a company named Yeddo in an area that has changed allegiance many times in the last couple of centuries. Sarreguemines is the French iteration, but as early as 1870 it was part of the Prussian Empire.
Saargemünd, originally a Roman settlement, obtained civic rights early in the 13th century. In 1297 it was ceded by the count of Saarbrücken to the Duke of Lorraine, and passed with Lorraine in 1766 to France.
It was transferred to Germany in 1871, with the Treaty of Frankfurt following the Franco-Prussian War. From 1871 to 1918 it formed part of the German imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine and manufactured plush velvet, leather, porcelain, and earthenware, and was a chief depot for papier-mch boxes, mostly used for snuffboxes. It was returned to France after World War I.
Circa 1880s.
