Description:
Herend or Samson and Company reproduction of a Chinese export porcelain octagonal plate decorated in blue, yellow, pink, purple, and green with a ruby-red ground around the rim, curvature, and into the well. Authentic ruby-backed Chinese porcelain wares of the Yongzheng period (1723-1735) decorated with figural interior scenes were sought after by Western collectors, and are now found in a number of the major public collections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. European porcelain copies are also numerous. The Herend company was officially established in 1842 by Moricz Fischer who showed his wares at major international exhibitions including the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876; the company was in private hands until 1943 when it was nationalized. Fischer produced reproductions of classic European, Chinese and Japanese porcelains, and his finest were described as "most deceptive." The most famous factory to make ceramic reproductions was the Paris firm of Samson and Company owned by Edme Samson (1810-1891) and his son, Emile (1837-1913), which was in production between 1845 and about 1964 when the Samson family sold what was left of the business. Public taste had begun to change and product quality to deteriorate in the 1930s, and quality worsened after WW II. Originally Samson made not only superb imitations of European delft and French, German, English, Japanese and Chinese export porcelains, but also of bronzes, marbles and enamels. Samson pieces are sometimes marked with an overglaze intertwined double "S" in red or gold. Unfortunately, this identifying overglaze mark can be removed and sold to the collector as the "real" thing. This plate rim has eight shaped reserves of multi-colored floral sprays on a white ground; the well has a Chinese woman seated on a bench by a table with several objects including a vase with a peacock feather, and two young children playing by her side on a white ground. The glaze on the back has a greenish tinge.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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