BY ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN POTS-POURRIS
By Escalier de Cristal, 19th Century
In imitation of Japanese Kakiemon, each with a square slightly-domed top with ribbon-tied foliate and acanthus handle, one top decorated with shaped panels of birds, the other with flowers and foliage, engraved to the underside 'Escalier de Cristal, Paris', above a pierced Vitruvian-scrolled frieze, the angles with ribbon-tied flowers, the body decorated with Chinoiserie flowers and foliage with birds and chickens, on a concave-moulded and stepped base with twisting ribbon and Vitruvian-scroll, on rectangular wrapped feet headed by acanthus scrolls, signed to the underside of the porcelain on one pot-pourris in purple ink '(OSS)', variations in the porcelain decoration, one lacking some mouldings to the top of the cover
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) square; 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) high (2)

Sale room notice

The porcelain is Japanese, early 18th Century with Dutch decoration and not as stated in the catalogue. Both lids are associated - one being Japanese and early 18th Century and the other Samson.

Lot Essay

Escalier de Cristal was established at the Palais Royal, nos. 162-3, by Marie-Jeanne-Rosalie Charpentier, the widow of Desarnaud, during the Restauration period. Celebrated for objets d'art in ormolu-mounted rock crystal, the firm was acquired by Lahoche et Boin in 1847. By the end of the 19th Century, under the ownership of Pannier Frères (1890-1923), it expanded further, specialising in copies of Louis XVI ébénisterie of superlative quality.

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