Signed Daum Nancy 19th Century Blue Glass Vase Stunning Dragonfly Cameo Rare

Description: Fine orange and red signed came glass vase with nature and dragon fly designs . Very rare color useage and theme is perfectly art noveau .Classic shape in a very unusual colorway. Like Galle, Daum was based in Nancy where most of the finest French Art Nouveau glass was made. Signed, etched to the base Daum Nancy with the cross of Lorraine. About Daum : For collectors, Daum is a name in the first rank of the French makers of art glass, along with those of Émile Gallé and René Lalique. Led in its early decades by the brothers Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), the company, based in the city of Nancy, established its reputation in the Art Nouveau period, and later successfully adopted the Art Deco style. In 1878, lawyer Jean Daum took over the ownership of a glassworks as payment for a debt and installed his sons as proprietors. Initially, Daum made glass for everyday purposes such as windows, watches and tableware, but the success that Gallé enjoyed at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris — the international showcase for which the Eiffel Tower was built — inspired the Daum brothers to begin making art-glass pieces. They produced popular works of cameo glass, a decorative technique in which an outer layer of glass is acid-etched or carved off to reveal the layer below, but Daum became best known for vessels and sculptures in pâte de verre — a painstaking method in which finely ground colored glass is mixed with a binder, placed in a mold and then fired in a kiln. Though early Daum glass was never signed by individual artists, the firm employed some of the masters of the naturalistic, asymmetrical Art Nouveau style, including Jacques Grüber, Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter (whose first name is frequently misspelled). Daum also collaborated with furniture and metalware designer Louis Majorelle, who created wrought-iron and brass mounts for vases and table lamps. In the 1960s, Daum commissioned fine artists, most notably Salvador Dalí and sculptor César Baldaccini, to design glass pieces. As you see from the works offered on 1stDibs, Daum has been home to an astonishingly rich roster of creative spirits and is today a state-owned enterprise making pâte de verre figurines Measures 6.5'' Height X5'' Width 5'' OpeningAccepting reasonable offers only as this is a rare piece, any questions feel free to ask!

Price: 1500 USD

Location: Glen Cove, New York

End Time: 2024-11-29T19:59:53.000Z

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