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Start: 1834   
Year 1899 name De Sphinx  
Place: Maastricht  
Sphinx v/h Petrus Regout & Co, NV, De 

Long tradition of mass production of kitchen/dinnerware Maastricht' pottery. Started in 1834 as Pottery Factory Petrus Regout, converted into CV Petrus Regout & Co in 1879, which was named De Sphinx voorheen (formerly) Petrus Regout & Co since 1899. Mark/backstamp see picture.

Mass production of hollow-ware/daily use pottery, like handpainted Boerenbont (= multicolour Folk Art flower decors), sold later on to Boch Belgium, which produces it still today. Decorative pottery, sanitary, tiles, hotel porcelain and childern's play dinner sets. Shiploads of heavy (should be stronger) dinnerware & pottery tiles went all over the world. Trade mark/backstamps were translated in the language & characters of this market.

First hand painted, later also trans­fer print. In the beginning with plates/engravings and etchings, only the colour blue, later also brown and black sustained the high temperature of the ovens. Around half of the 19th Century also the colour green and red. Since 1891 obligated to mention 'Made in Hol­land' because of the imitation of Wedg­wood-ceramics, like Recamier.& deco­rs Teadrin­ker and Wil­low (famous 3 figures on a bridge, willow-tree and frisks pigeons) These decors were a century long in production. In the 1920s De Stijl/The Style had a clear influence with her primary colours and checkes on decorative pottery designed by Bellefroid. Merged in 1958 with Société Céramique into NV Sphinx-Céramique. Regout was (because of the take over of De Toekomst) the largest kitchenware/hollow-ware pottery factory of Holland.

Ontwerper G.M.E. Bellefroid, C. Eyck, C.J. van der Hoef, J.H. Lint, C.A. Lion Cachet, E.H.M. Molkenboer, W.J. Rozendaal, P.E. Daems, W. Visser, H.J. Jansen van Galen, Charles Vos, M. Wildenhain Friedlaender


     

 
   
NV de Sphinx Maastricht hand decorated Art Deco vases, 1932. 1850-1900 print decors of water-nymph & aurora, Petrus Regout.
   
Different Boerenbont decors of Sphinx-Petrus Regout.  Sphinx-Petrus Regout dinner set decor Flora.