A great dynamism emerges from this work depicting a rooster, standing on a bundle of wheat bundles, the claws of its feet resting in the middle of the ears. The animal seems to be captured in full movement, the feathers raised on its head, somewhat ruffled, its gaze both lively and surprised, its beak open with its tongue visible, as if the spectator could almost hear its song about to resonate. This liveliness that emanates from the piece is also conferred by the rich polychromy in flamboyant tones of red, ochre and yellow, used in order to detail in a meticulous and extremely realistic manner, the general rendering of the bird.
The Samson factory, based in Montreuil from 1871, specialized from the beginning in a very particular type of production by reproducing collector's items from various other famous houses such as Sèvres, while offering impeccable quality of execution, which earned them the nickname of "genius of imitation".
In the case of our rooster, it pays homage to the famous pioneering house of porcelain art in Europe, namely Meissen. And more particularly to Ernst August Leuteritz, designer of this piece, better known under the title of "Rooster of Padua" (symbol of luck and prosperity), in 1854 inspired by the models of Joachim Kandler (1706-1775), designed around 1730 for the royal collection of the Japanese Palace in Dresden.
Dimensions:
Diameter of the base: 23 cm
Height: 66,5 cm
Width: 22 cm
Depth :34 cm