A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted blue and white porcelain covered vase by Maison Escalier de Cristal second half 19th century, signed Escalier de Cristal and with an old paper label to bottom inscribed Escalier Cristal...

The Maison A l'Escalier de Cristal was established in 1802 by the widow Mme Désarnaud, née Marie-Jeanne-Rosalie Charpentier.  The firm exhibited with great acclaim at the 1819 Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie held at the Louvre, Paris.  The luxury store of A l'Escalier de Cristal supplied decorative works of art of the highest quality to the ruling families in Europe including the Duc de Berry and the Garde-meuble de la Couronne, and was consequently appointed Fournisseur breveté du Roi in 1819.