Manufacturer: Petrus Regout & Co., / Royal Sphinx – Maastricht, Netherlands
User: d' Amstelhoek
Date of plate: probably 1950s

1960 photo

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Notes: Little is known about the Café d' Amstelhoek, a restaurant located in Amsterdam that seems to have been in business possibly from the late 19th century and, based on the photo shown above as well as others, certainly into the 1960s, too. We might conclude from the drawing in the center of the plate showing a chef with frying pan contemplating a reluctant rabbit that Hassenpfeffer stew could have been a house specialty.

From this page showing a vintage photo of the restaurant comes this bit of additional info, that d' Amstelhoek was indeed open mid-century: "Instead of the café-restaurant – where hockey club Randwijck (now MHC Amstelveen) was founded during a meeting in the early 50s – there is now a liquor store and wine shop on the right side of the building, still under the name d'Amstelhoek."

Today (2026), that wine and liquor store's website confirms its connection to the cafe: "You will find us in the historic building former café restaurant d' Amstelhoek, centrally located on the border of Amsterdam and Amstelveen, at the entrance of the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest)." The village itself is located on the Amstel-Drecht Canal, which connects the river Drecht and the Aar Canal with the Amstel River. Pictures of the cafe from the 1950s-60s show it with tables out front.

The closest mark found to this backstamp, from among the many used by the Dutch company featuring its sphinx logo, comes from the InfoFaience website and dates it to the 1950s. More can be found here about Petrus Regout, and his efforts to convey the impression that his pottery was actually made in England. From the Wikipedia, "It was the first large-scale mechanized factory in the Netherlands and is seen as the cradle of the industrial revolution in the Netherlands."

Sources:
Liquor Store – Wine Merchant d' Amstelhoek website – information about the building
Wikipedia – information about the manufacturer
Amstelveenweb – photo
Amstelveenz – photo
InfoFaience website – backstamp dating assistance
Petrus Regout – history

Contributors:
Jesse James Schroeder – plate photos
Ed Phillips – author