Porcelain figure "Allegory - Earth"
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1,150 EUR
Artist/Maker: Samson
Artist/Maker Dates: 1845 - 1969
Place of Production: France
Date of Production: end of 19th century
Materials: gilding, porcelain, underglaze hand painting
Height: 27.5 cm.
Condition:
Description
Edmé Samson, born in Paris in 1810, established the porcelain company of
Samson-Edmé et Cie in 1845. Samson began his career by producing
replacement pieces, from museums and private collections, which it
assured would be clearly marked to avoid confusion with the originals.
All wares were reproduced in a glossy, hard-paste porcelain. but it soon
became obvious that his skill at reproduction resulted in superb copies
of the original.
Edmé Samson specialised in the reproduction of
Chinese export style porcelain from the period when it was fashionable
for aristocratic families to order their services and shapes from
southern China.
The range of wares included copies of
18th-century porcelain from such factories as Sèvres, Chelsea, Meissen
and Derby, Chinese export-wares, especially armorial wares, Delftware,
Iznikware, majolica and faience.
He was a decorator of porcelain
and his son Emile was a potter. The factory was located in Montreuil
with a salesroom in Paris, and from it have came clever copies of
Oriental and European porcelains. Some of the work is excellent as far
as technique is concerned, and it includes their own private mark in
addition to the marks of the factories whose productions they imitate.
At
one time the factory employed more than two hundred skilled workers,
and is still in existence. Copies of antique faience, enamels and bronze
work are included in their work.
By the middle of the 19th
century Samson was producing porcelain in all shapes and styles in
imitation of all the major European factories, as well as Japanese Imari
and the famous Famille Rose and Famille Vert styles produced in China
between 1720 and 1790.
In 1864 the founder’s son moved the company to
Montreuil. In addition to their own unique marks, this company marked
their items with symbols very similar to marks seen on the actual
original pieces they were copying. However and in most cases, they added
the letter “S” or some other sign to indicate that this was a copy.
The Edmé SAMSON et Cie company continued to produce accurate replicas or reproductions of older porcelain until 1969.
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