Porcelaine de Paris Chinese Export Style Cobalt Pagoda Landscape Scene Plate B Nice vintage luncheon plate. Decorated in the Chinese Export style with a hand painted brown landscape scene with pagodas, trees and mountains in the center framed in gold with blue and gold leaves and butterfly around the center. Has a cobalt blue border with gold floral designs above red and gold scallops. Gold gilding along the edge. This has a red pseudo Asian mark on the base. This mark is commonly believed to have been used by Edme Samson, but was actually used by the company Porcelaine De Paris between 1949 and 1980. According to the book Samson, Genie de L’imitation by Florence Slitine, 2002, on page 182, these red pseudo-Chinese marks were not used by Samson, according to an M. Garcia who was the last house decorator for Samson. The book also states that these marks were used by the company Porcelaine de Paris according to a decorator, Mme. Has some wear to the gilding, but otherwise good condition with no chips or cracks. Measures approximately 8 inches wide. This is vintage and may have small in manufacture defects that do not affect the display of the piece.