Description:
One of a pair. Based on information provided by Taylor B. Williams, antique dealer, on 10/8/2004, these are a pair of unmarked Samson and Company copies of antique English Battersea enamels on copper candlesticks decorated with floral sprays in pink, blue, green, yellow, white and purple. The most famous factory to produce 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 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. Their production of enameled wares is not as well documented. 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.
Subjects:
Copper; Enamel and enameling; polychrome Link to share this object record:
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