Sarreguemines, Small Plate Mathis, Alsace, Automobile, Dorette Muller, Advertising

From the collaboration between the Alsatian car manufacturer Émile Mathis and the Sarreguemines earthenware factory, we have 9 advertising vignettes affixed to plates.
This production, which dates from the 1920s and 1930s, a period that marked the return of Alsace-Moselle to France after a long and painful separation (1871-1918), is illustrated by images characteristic of Alsace: headdresses and costumes, half-timbered houses, storks' nests, geese, Strasbourg Cathedral, etc.
This identity is reinforced by the choice of artists who contributed to part of this iconography: Dorette Muller and Henri Zislin, two Alsatian artists whose works are still highly sought after today.
The 9 vignettes are affixed mainly to plates of two sizes: 21.5 cm, more rarely 16 cm in diameter.
The small plate that we are offering you is called by collectors "La Mathis scaring the geese".
The vignette in the basin shows a Mathis car speeding through an Alsatian village, scaring geese.
The rim is decorated with the Automobile Mathis Strasbourg logo alternating with a frieze of triangles.
This decoration is signed Dorette Muller.
Diameter - 16 cm
Printed stamp Sarreguemines DV France.
Good condition.
Circa 1921-23.