Lot Essay
This Samson bottle is identical in style and decoration to the Safavid example of lot 80. It is so close that it seems likely that it was copied from that original.
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FRANCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A SAMSON SAFAVID-STYLE CERAMIC BOTTLE
FRANCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Rising from a wide trumpet foot to a rounded body with slightly flattened sides, tapering to a thin neck, the white ground painted in cobalt-blue, green, turquoise and bole-red with black outlines, with a floral spray surrounded by a band of scrolling floral vine, the sides with large cusped cartouches containing arabesques on a ground of stylised rosettes, the foot with a stylised cloud band on a ground of scrolling floral vine, a band of vertical hatching around the mouth, repaired break to the foot, the underside signed Samson
19 1/8in. (46cm.) high
FRANCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Rising from a wide trumpet foot to a rounded body with slightly flattened sides, tapering to a thin neck, the white ground painted in cobalt-blue, green, turquoise and bole-red with black outlines, with a floral spray surrounded by a band of scrolling floral vine, the sides with large cusped cartouches containing arabesques on a ground of stylised rosettes, the foot with a stylised cloud band on a ground of scrolling floral vine, a band of vertical hatching around the mouth, repaired break to the foot, the underside signed Samson
19 1/8in. (46cm.) high
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