{"id":7921073783012,"title":"Antique Edme Samson Paris Chinese Export style Armorial vase | La Virtus Invicta","handle":"antique-edme-samson-paris-chinese-export-style-armorial-vase-la-virtus-invicta","description":"An Antique Edme Samson Paris \u003cbr\u003eChinese Export style Armorial vase La Virtus Invicta - really nicely detailed piece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec.1900\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApprox 22cms (8 3\/4\") tall\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn excellent condition\u003cbr\u003eThere is a little missing white tube lining or enamelling on the vase \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Edme Samson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmé Samson (b Paris, 1810; d Paris, 1891), was the founder of the porcelain firm Samson, Edmé et Cie (commonly known as Samson Ceramics). Samson was a famous copyist (and perhaps forger) of porcelain and pottery. The firm produced high-quality copies or imitations of earlier styles of porcelain, mainly 18th-century European and Chinese and Japanese porcelain, but also earlier styles such as Italian majolica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson began his career by making service and set piece replacements in the late 1830s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the 19th century, the collectors' market for antique fine china was considerable, and Samson’s firm reproduced ceramics in a breadth of styles including the faience and maiolica types of Italian pottery, Persian style dishes, Hispano-Moresque pottery (a blending of Islamic and European motifs, produced during the 13th to 15th centuries), plates in the FitzHugh pattern, as well as plates in the manner associated with Bernard Palissy. The firm exhibited at the International Exposition (1867) and the Exposition Universelle (1889).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Samson, Edmé et Cie company continued to produce porcelain and pottery until 1969.\u003c\/strong\u003e The salesroom models were sold in 1979 by Christie's, London. \u003cstrong\u003eToday many of the Samson’s pieces are collectors’ items\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Ironically not all pieces attributed to Samson are actually Samson: there were many other Paris workshops producing similar 'copies' of earlier ceramics at the same time. Many Samson marks were removed from the piece, leaving just the assumed mark of the piece they had copied; often this is visible as a ground patch to the base. This was done in order to sell the item as the genuine article. 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really nicely detailed piece\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec.1900\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApprox 22cms (8 3\/4\") tall\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn excellent condition\u003cbr\u003eThere is a little missing white tube lining or enamelling on the vase \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Edme Samson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmé Samson (b Paris, 1810; d Paris, 1891), was the founder of the porcelain firm Samson, Edmé et Cie (commonly known as Samson Ceramics). Samson was a famous copyist (and perhaps forger) of porcelain and pottery. The firm produced high-quality copies or imitations of earlier styles of porcelain, mainly 18th-century European and Chinese and Japanese porcelain, but also earlier styles such as Italian majolica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamson began his career by making service and set piece replacements in the late 1830s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the 19th century, the collectors' market for antique fine china was considerable, and Samson’s firm reproduced ceramics in a breadth of styles including the faience and maiolica types of Italian pottery, Persian style dishes, Hispano-Moresque pottery (a blending of Islamic and European motifs, produced during the 13th to 15th centuries), plates in the FitzHugh pattern, as well as plates in the manner associated with Bernard Palissy. The firm exhibited at the International Exposition (1867) and the Exposition Universelle (1889).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Samson, Edmé et Cie company continued to produce porcelain and pottery until 1969.\u003c\/strong\u003e The salesroom models were sold in 1979 by Christie's, London. \u003cstrong\u003eToday many of the Samson’s pieces are collectors’ items\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Ironically not all pieces attributed to Samson are actually Samson: there were many other Paris workshops producing similar 'copies' of earlier ceramics at the same time. Many Samson marks were removed from the piece, leaving just the assumed mark of the piece they had copied; often this is visible as a ground patch to the base. This was done in order to sell the item as the genuine article. Some pieces described as Samson were actually produced by Herend, Hungary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e"}