Yellow "Cerise" Majolica Plate - Sarreguemines - 1890s Wood filled with fresh flowers

filled with fresh flowers

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mid-to-late 20th century production (most commonly 1960s–1980s)

some discolouring on the front mirror

designed by the legendary Hertha Bengtson for Rörstrand

Yellow "Cerise" Majolica Plate - Sarreguemines - 1890s Wood filled with fresh flowersThis antique Sarreguemines majolica plate captures the joyful colour and depth the factory is loved for. The surface is moulded with bold leaf veins and a central cherry (cerise) cluster, finished in a luminous yellow ground with rosy fruit and soft tonal shading. Made in Lorraine, France, Sarreguemines produced some of Europes most collectable majolica at the turn of the 20th century. This example shows why: clean moulding, saturated glaze and a