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Factory: Samson & Co
Large Samson Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in opaque enamels of bright tone, pink, blue, green, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, white and black with a basket of fruit and flowers.
Large Samson Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in opaque enamels of bright tone, pink, blue, green, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, white and black. The centre has a basket of flowers and fruit. The rim has alternating pink and turquoise diaper borders decorated with sprays of prunus and peony respectively and reserved with six 'Antique' vignettes. The underside has three sprigs of lingzhi fungus in iron-red. There are three spur marks on the base.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 44.5 cm
Height: 6.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
19th Century, Mid-Late
Circa
1845
CE
-
Circa
1900
CE
Established by Edmé Samson in Paris at 7, Rue Vendome (later Rue Béranger). In 1864 the factory was moved to Montreuil by Samson's son, Emile Samson.
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille rose)
Accession number: MAR.C.96-1912
Primary reference Number: 77415
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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