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Item Ref# CS8228
Paul Kruger Sarreguemines Character Jug
This is an antique character jug depicting President Paul Kruger (very scarce in green) - who became the international face of the Boer resistance against the mighty British Empire. Some 40 000 boer civilians stood against over 450 000 colonial soldiers.
This jug (pichet) is French made and has Depose, (meaning registered or copyright) incised into the base along with the number 115. Height: 19.5cm
It dates from the late 19th century.
General The pottery at Sarreguemines was established in 1784 - the territory was French, but it became German ninety years later. The company originally made only earthenware but by the turn of the century was producing fine stoneware and using unusual mixtures of clay for their body.
They enjoyed great success during the Empire period and Napoleon, who was a patron, conferred the Légion d'Honneur on Paul Utzshneider, the director of the company. A variety of colours and designs was used and a wide range of domestic utility, decorative and ornamental wares were made. By the middle of the nineteenth century, though, the colour range had reduced to shades of brown and beige. In the second half of the century a range of domestic wares was introduced with relief decoration in the form of leaves and vines.
In 1876 after the Franco Prussian War, a new plant was opened at Digoin in France and the production of earthenware, stoneware and porcelain was carried out there well into the twentieth century. |
Young Boer Warriors
When General De Wet captured seven cannon from the enemy at the battle of Sannas Post, two of the volunteers to operate them were boys aged respectively fourteen and fifteen years. Pieter J. Henning, of the Potchefstroom commando, who was injured in the battle of Scholtznek on December 11th, was less than fifteen years old, yet his valour in battle was as conspicuous as that of any of the burghers who took part in the engagement.
Teunis H.C. Mulder, of the Pretoria commando, celebrated his sixteenth birthday only a few days before he was twice wounded at Ladysmith on November 9th, and Willem Francois Joubert, a relative of the Commandant-General, was only fifteen years old when he was wounded at Ladysmith on October 30th. At the battle of Koedoesrand, fifteen-year-old Pieter de Jager, of the Bethlehem commando, was seriously injured by a shell while he was conveying his injured father from the field.
With the army of General Cronje captured at Paardeberg were no less than a hundred burghers who had not reached the sixteenth year, and among those who escaped from the laager in the river-bed were two Bloemfontein boys named Roux, aged twelve and fourteen years.
At Colenso a Wakkerstroom youth of twelve years captured three English scouts and compelled them to march ahead of him to the commandant's tent.
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The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 |