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A CHINESE ORMOLU-MOUNTED UNDERGLAZE BLUE, RED AND WHITE CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN JAR AND COVER
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A CHINESE ORMOLU-MOUNTED UNDERGLAZE BLUE, RED AND WHITE CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN JAR AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN KANGXI, (1662-1722), THE FOOT MOUNT BY ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY, SOME MOUNTS POSSIBLY REGENCE CIRCA 1715-23

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A CHINESE ORMOLU-MOUNTED UNDERGLAZE BLUE, RED AND WHITE CELADON-GROUND PORCELAIN JAR AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN KANGXI, (1662-1722), THE FOOT MOUNT BY ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY, SOME MOUNTS POSSIBLY REGENCE CIRCA 1715-23
Of compressed baluster shape, slip decorated on a pale celadon ground and painted in blue and red around the body with birds in flight or perched on blossoming branches
10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) high
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The Maison A l'Escalier de Cristal was established in 1802 by the widow Mme. Disarnaud, neé Marie-Jeanne-Rosalie Charpentier. The business with a shop and workshop was based in the Palais Royal, a centre of excellence for the high quality jewellers, silversmiths and manufacturers of Objets de Vertu, for which Paris was renowned. Although traditionally known to have manufactured and retailed contemporary works of art, the apparently period Regence mounts on the upper section of this pot-pourri vase would suggest that they also restored mounted pieces, which they then sold. L'Escalier de Cristal was the first manufacturer to mount crystal taillé objects with gilt-bronze. These were supplied by Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues (d. 1848), who in 1802 had bought the Voneche glass factory in the Ardennes, later to become the Baccarat crystalworks, and were then shipped and finished in the Palais Royal workshops. The luxury store of A l'Escalier de Cristal supplied clocks, vases, lamps and other objects d'art to ruling families in Europe, and was appointed Fournisseur breveté du Roi in 1819, as well as the Duc de Berry and the Garde-meuble de la Couronne. They dealt in, and carried an extensive stock of porcelain, some of which they mounted. The company produced furniture and all kinds of luxurious objects, commissioning manufacturers to supply individual components, which were then assembled to the firm's own design, very much in the tradition of the marchand-merciers of the 18th century, from whom they inherited their specialist profession.