c. 1880–1891
TRESSEMANN & VOGT / LIMOGES
Full company names in a circle distinguish the exporter’s stamp from the later rectangular initials.
printed · blue · hard-paste porcelain · Limoges, France
Pottery & porcelain
T & v Limoges marks
T & v Limoges marks include printed “TRESSEMANN & VOGT / LIMOGES” on hard-paste porcelain dated c. 1880–1891 in Limoges, France.
- Active years
- 1882–1919
- Country
- France
- City / region
- Limoges
- Products
- hard-paste porcelain blanks, decorated dinner services, cups and saucers, bowls, pitchers and tankards
- Marks
- 5
Partnership and decorating/exporting business from 1882; own porcelain manufacture from 1891. Tressemanes retired in 1907; Vogt continued until the 1919 sale. Raynaud retained T&V marks after acquisition.
What to look for
- Compare the order of LIMOGES, FRANCE and DÉPOSÉ, and check whether the initials sit in a rectangle or inside a bell. The bell is a decorating emblem; a green factory stamp can occur on a blank painted elsewhere.
- Keep patent dates, painted signatures and retailer names separate from the factory stamp. A dated decoration can be later than the porcelain body.
- Read a bell with ABRAM FRENCH & CO BOSTON MASS as a T&V emblem combined with the American retailer’s wording.
Dated marks & timeline
5 marks
c. 1907–1919
LIMOGES / T.V
LIMOGES arches above the bell, instead of FRANCE below it.
printed · purple-red · hard-paste porcelain · Limoges, France
Undated
T.V / FRANCE
FRANCE sits below the bell; the separate green rectangle identifies the porcelain body.
printed · red · hard-paste porcelain · Limoges, France
Undated
T&V / FRANCE / DÉPOSÉ
DÉPOSÉ replaces the LIMOGES line below FRANCE.
printed · green · hard-paste porcelain · Limoges, France
Undated
T&V / FRANCE / DEPOSE
FRANCE and DEPOSE appear below the boxed T&V initials.
printed · green · hard-paste porcelain · Limoges, France
About Tressemanes & Vogt
Émilien de Tressemanes and Gustave Vogt formed their Limoges partnership in 1882, continuing a porcelain decorating and export business established by the Vogt family. John Vogt had opened a New York import house in 1840 and a Limoges office in the 1850s. The American market remained important to the later Tressemanes & Vogt firm.
In 1891 the partners acquired two small factories in the Montjovis district and began making their own porcelain. They supplied white blanks for outside decorators as well as finished tableware. Their products included dinner plates, cups, bowls, pitchers and ornamental wares. A green factory stamp can therefore appear beside a different studio’s or an individual painter’s signature. The company also used a bell-shaped decorating emblem.
Tressemanes retired in 1907 and Gustave Vogt became sole proprietor. Martial Raynaud bought the business in 1919 and reorganized the Montjovis factory. He continued using T&V marks alongside the Raynaud identity. A T&V stamp can consequently survive the partnership that supplied its initials, while a painted signature or patent inscription records a different part of an object’s history.
Also known as: T&V · Tressemann & Vogt · Tressemaines & Vogt · Tresseman & Vogt · Porcelaine Gustave Vogt (successor name) · Émilien de Tressemanes and Gustave Vogt
Look-alikes & how to tell them apart
Raynaud
Raynaud acquired the factory in 1919 and retained T&V marks. Added Raynaud or R & Co wording identifies the successor rather than a new Tressemanes partnership.
R. Delinières & Co.
The D & Co factory stamp may accompany the full-name Tressemanes & Vogt exporting ring. D & Co identifies the body maker on that combination.
Other Limoges factories
LIMOGES and FRANCE are shared place names. Match the T&V initials, full exporter name or bell device as well.