Featured Sevres pseudomarks I think...

Hi folks. These lidded pots are, to my mind, far too thick to be the real thing. So, just after confirmation that they're pseudo Sevres - the little gold cartouche also says L M & Co. Decoration does look to be handpainted, and I know they've some age - at least the 1910s.

 

You are right. Absolute dreck. Toss in the dust bin.




Your address is...?

 

Ah. So, Sansom perhaps? Or, seriously, do you think they actually ARE what they purport to be? I thought too clunky.

 

Let's just say, everyone always seems to say that any and all Sevres marks are pseudo.

I don't really care -- some things are just delightful, fairytale bibelots, and I can waft off into the rainbow mist, wearing my powdered wig, and silk dress with embonpoint edged with creamy lace and rosebuds...

You should see me in the Fragonard/Boucher room in the Frick Museum.

Or, perhaps not...

 

I have read that the Sevres looking mark with the S was Samson.

 

This is a link to Sevres marks and other companies with similar marks but it doesn't include the Samson mark.

http://antique-marks.com/sevres-marks.html

 

This may be Gustav Stulz AG of Strasbourg; he made items around the same time as the Dresden rococo period, similarly decorated and had an "S" inside the Sevres style symbol. If it's his, it's better (better in the sense of more desirable, rarer) than Samson.

 

Hello everyone. I'm contemplating acquiring a Sevres "soupiere" myself. Width= 60 cm, height= 40 cm. It has the "S" mark. Is it authentic? What period?

 

I just edited my post with photos... Hope you can see them now?

 

Re. the photos I posted above with the help of the moderator, I'm learning on the net that this could actually have been made by the porcelain firm Samson, Edmé et Cie (aka Samson Ceramics), a famous copyist (and perhaps forger) of porcelain and pottery. The firm produced high-quality copies or imitations of earlier styles of porcelain, mainly 18th-century European and Chinese and Japanese porcelain, but also earlier styles such as Italian maiolica.
Am I on the right track? And if so, what period would my "copy/forgery" be and how valuable would it be? It comes without the plate underneath--if there ever was one--and is 60 cm in width and 40 cm in height (pretty large).

 

Any idea anyone?

 

See my post just upthread; I am convinced these are G. Stulz, Strasbourg. The way the reversed "L's" and S are stylized on your beautiful bowl and on my tea caddy are identical, and the decorations are similar- and similarly well-done- also.

Are you keeping it, Ron?

 

He decorated in the Dresden style. Here is another splendid example, one of the finest porcelain figural groups I've ever seen (but out of my budget in a huge way!):

 

Hi Erin, the guy is waiting for my reply. I'm just hesitating because no one knows what these are exactly and what period? I agree that the level of detailing seems quite high and neat. But is it just me or am I seeing some sort of transparent rectangular contour around the signature as if it was pasted instead of printed?

 

Invisible Rectangle Contour by RON72 posted Oct 11, 2021 at 5:50 PM

Invisible Rectangle Contour by RON72 posted Oct 11, 2021 at 5:50 PM

 

Sevres manufacture their porcelain, they have no need to decorate that of others. If it has some other maker's name on it, it's not by Sevres.

 

OK. My question is: what's this mark on mine and is it legit? Any indication to period as well would be great...