Servant With Three Trays - The Crystal Staircase

Grand servant with three trays in cedar burl veneer, mahogany and light wood nets framing a black wooden net. The trays are circled with a bronze belt. The finely molded feet end with bronze shoes. Stamped under the last plateau: "Crystal Stairs - Paris". Late nineteenth century; good condition of house Created in 1804 by Marie Desarnaud, the Crystal Staircase is a house located at the Royal Palace. It was taken over by Lahoche and Bouin in 1847, then by Lahoche and Pannier in 1857, and finally by Pannier brothers from 1890 to 1923. At the creation of his establishment, Marie Desarnaud associated crystal and gilded bronze. The quality of her creations is unanimously recognized during the Exhibition of French Industry Products of 1819, where she won the gold medal. It was only at the end of the reign of Louis-Philippe, at the initiative of the Pannier brothers, that the store expanded its activity to the furniture trade, and began to manufacture cabinet-making furniture around 1870. L'Escalier de Cristal specialized in copying 18th century furniture. The quality and execution of these pieces of furniture are such that sometimes they were taken for originals. The Crystal Staircase won the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. The house was finally closed in 1923.