Edmé Samson Small Porcelain And Bronze Cooler, 19th Century

Edmé Samson small porcelain & bronze cooler 19th century.
Small porcelain cooler with a sky blue background featuring two decorations in reserve with gilt highlights of a polychrome on a white background of a floral bouquet and two Cherubs fluttering on clouds;
Completed by two small side handles in the shape of a leaf. It rests on a pedestal which forms its base.
The porcelain is set in a mount with bronze handles of vine branches and acanthus leaves in the Louis XV style.
Signed under the base with a mark in imitation of Sèvres in underglaze blue used by Edmé Samson; workshop based in Montreuil.
Period second half of the 19th century.
Perfect condition. Bronze cleaned and varnished.
Dimensions:
The cooler: ø 10.50 cm - height: 11.50 cm.
The set with the bronze mount:
Maximum length at the handles: 22 cm – ø in width: 140 cm – maximum height: 17 cm.

The Samson family over 5 generations (from 1845 to 1979) will specialize in the arts of ceramics & bronze, but more precisely in the reproduction of collector's pieces. The Samsons are often called "geniuses of imitation".