A FRENCH PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU MOUNTED LARGE POT POURRI BOWL AND COVER

A FRENCH PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU MOUNTED LARGE POT POURRI BOWL AND COVER, EDME SAMSON & CIE, PARIS, LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY

after an 18th century model, circular, the Qianlong style porcelain with leaf moulded pink ground applied with trailing vines, the bronze mounts of a shell and coral cast finial, leaf-capped scroll handles, a rim mount pierced with ovals between flowerheads and openwork base mount of rocaille and foliate scrolls, Samson S mark to base behind cover

36cm across handles

Samson may have been inspired to produce this model by a very similar pair of Qianlong bowls and covers, ormolu mounted in Paris in about 1745, now to be found at the Wallace Collection, London (Inv. No.F115). For a pair of Samson bowls of the same pattern see Christie's, Paris, 'Léon Levy Collection', 2 October 2008, lot 26, and for another Samson bowl also of this pattern excepting a different finial and with green ground porcelain see Altair Auctions, Norwood MA, 15 December 2012, lot 82.