PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered pitcher, overlaid, acid etched and wheel carved, enameled design in the “fluogravure” technique, applied handle, gold highlights
Signed
20 cm. high
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass – Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July – 27 October 1996 Verrerie Art Nouveau, l'Exemple des Frères Muller, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, 6 October 2007 – 7 January 2008, ill. p. 85, n. 16 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 1996, p. 32, n. 42.
Provenance
Dr Henry Blount, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
PLATE “THE NYMPH GALATEA”, CIRCA 1900
Exceptional medallion in pâte de verre figuring Galatea asleep being watched by a beast, in shades of pink, yellow brown and orange on a blue background
Signed
Diameter: 27 cm
A similar piece is in the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inventory n° 19647, acquired at the sale of the Roger Marx collection in 1914
Exhibition Chefs d’oeuvre de la verrerie et de la cristallerie française au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1800-1990, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1991, p. 32, n. 25, in the exhibition catalogue
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Henry Cros, (1840-1907), Sculpteur et dessinateur, 6 March – 26 May 2024, p. 59, cat. 26, and pp. 84 et 85 (détails)
VASE, CIRCA 1925
Clear glass internally decorated with orange stripes and air bubbles
Wheel-cut signature Daum Nancy France
23 cm. high
An identical model was exhibited at the 1925 Exposition and acquired by the State for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 1925
Bruxelles, Société Générale de Banque, “Art Déco 1925”
Bibliography
Duret-Robert François, Daum, Connaissance des Arts, November 1972, n. 249
Brunhammer, Yvonne, 1925, les presses de la connaissance, Paris 1976, full color ill. p. 79
Bacri Clothilde, Daum, Michel Aveline, éditeur, 1991, full page ill. p. 190
LIQUEUR SET, CIRCA 1900
Enameled smoked glass decorated with thistles and the Cross of Lorraine
Including two jugs and their stoppers, 12 small glasses and a tray
Signed
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Thick tubular freely blown and shaped glass vase with side protrusions. Multilayered, opalescent glass overlaid in brick red and caramel, intaglio and wheel cut with a design of flowers and stylized foliage and a butterfly in flight
Unsigned. Numbered 532
16.5 cm. high
VASE, BEFORE 1889
“Cristallerie” glass engraved in intaglio and enameled
Signed with a diamond point
Design attributed to Louis Hestaux
Height: 19.5 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1889
Polychrome “cristallerie” glass decorated with enamelled water lilies, aquatic flowers, stems,
and three dragonflies; original bronze base decorated with four snails
Enamelled signature in Japanese style
17 cm. high
VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904
Conical shape with circular foot, clear glass with colored powders inclusions, overlaid and cut with foliage and vines, two applied snails
Signed
32.5 cm. high
Bibliography
The Daum firm has the original drawing for this and other vessels with the same decoration.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass, etched to simulate the movement of the waves, partly frosted, overlaid with enamel
and wheel-carved with a decor of fishes and aquatic flora
17 cm. high
Exhibition Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 20, 21
SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass with inclusions; with two applied
handles, the decor in marquetry
and chased
Wheel-carved signature
9 cm. high
16 cm. long
“CAVALIER PERSAN” BEAKER, DESIGNED CIRCA 1889
Glass, decorated with a Persian horse rider, in polychrome enamel on a background engraved with stylized and geometrical flowers and partly highlighted in gold, inclusion of shattered gold foils
Signed E. Gallé Nancy under its base
10 cm. high
Bibliography
Bernd Hakenjos, Emile Gallé, Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau, Hirmer, ill. p. 80
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Small pear-shaped vase, clear glass overlaid with black and with platinum foil, acid-etched and entirely wheel-carved, hammered body
Signed in wheel-carved cameo
8.5 cm. high Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Henri Flammarion
AN IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Blown glass vase decorated with mushrooms, oak leaves and pincones
Acid-etched, wheel-etched, carved
Engraved signature
51 cm. high
Exhibition Takashimaya, exposition itinérante au Japon, 1986, n. 86, ill. p. 19
VASE “PRUNELIER DU JAPON”, CIRCA 1910
Multilayered glass, decorated with acid-etched and wheel-carved Japanese blackthorns
Wheel-carved signature
44.5 cm. high
BOTTLE AND STOPPER, CIRCA 1900
Opalescent amber glass bottle decorated with catkins
Deeply acid-etched and carved; three applications on platinum foil including one on
the stopper
Engraved signature
11.5 cm. high
