Delicate peony blossoms and scrolling vines twist across this porcelain vase, their raised edges catching the light. Samson’s 19th-century copy refines St. Cloud’s 18th-century chinoiserie, yet the hard-paste glaze betrays its later origin—how might the scent of dried roses have escaped these precisely pierced holes?

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