IMPORTANT PART OF A FINE CASEWARE TABLE SERVICE called "SERVICE AUX GRANDS OISEAUX" by the ESCALIER DE CRISTAL. PARIS About 1885. Composed of sixty-six pieces: 23 dinner plates, 18 soup plates and 18 dessert plates, two round dishes, one deep dish, one oval dish, one sauce boat. Two fruit cups on pedestal, with polychrome decoration of large birds, carp, lobster, insects, mice, deer, rabbits, farmyard animals, evolving in a luxuriant vegetation of flowering stems, and shrubs in bloom, or water flowers, the borders decorated with blue combs and ribs in relief. (Small chips in the border of three soup plates, cracks in two dinner plates and an oval dish, some stains). Mark on the reverse side " escalier de cristal Paris ". The decoration called "big birds" follows the success obtained by the famous service ROUSSEAU in 1866 from the plates made by BRACQUEMOND inspired by Japanese mangas and Hokusai in particular, the ceramist Albert DAMMOUSE will create a first variant distributed by the crystal staircase, already called "BIG BIRDS SERVICE" painted by hand and made only on order because of its high price In 1885 on order of the famous and luxurious store "the crystal staircase" directed by Mr PANNIER, installed then street scribe, another less expensive service in printed decoration will be carried out with the manufacture of CHOISY LE ROI with drawings of large birds, fish, and other animals and vegetation, being registered completely in the Japanese current. BIBL. "The crystal staircase Luxury in Paris 1809/1923) Annick and Didier MASSEAU. Editions Monelle HAYOT. 2021. P.138 /139.