DAUM NANCY – PAUL RACADOT – CANDY BOX – POSSIBLY UNIQUE, 1925
CANDY BOX – POSSIBLY UNIQUE, 1925
Clear glass with gold foil inclusions overlaid in deep violet and wheel carved with stylized flowers and leaves
Wheel engraved signature
34 cm. diameter
This piece was designed for the 1925 Exposition Universelle
Paul Racadot was the chief engraver at the Daum manufacture
Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs, 1925, Grand Palais, Paris
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, Le verre en France d’Émile Gallé à nos jours, les éditions de l’amateur, 1983, ill. p. 48 on a period drawing (Daum archives) showing one of the display cabinets at the 1925 Exposition Universelle
Provenance
Collection Daum, acquired in 1987