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Daum Nancy Louis Majorelle Monumental Vase

Creator: Daum / Daum Nancy
Offered by: Avantiques

Description
Louis Majorelle Daum. Nancy art glass and iron blue variegated vase Vase, circa 1925 Art Nouveau Art Deco Era Art Glass, wrought iron. Height: 10.25 Inches 26.6 cm high Diameter: 10.25 Inches Underside engraved L Majorelle/Daum Nancy France with the Cross of Lorraine. Condition: Excellent with no defects We are dedicated to providing an exclusive curated collection of Fine Arts, Paintings, Bronzes, Asian treasures, Art Glass and Antiques. Our inventory represents time-tested investment quality items with everlasting decorative beauty. We look forward to your business and appreciate any reasonable offers. All of our curated items are vetted and guaranteed authentic and as described. Avantiques only deals in original antiques and never reproductions. We stand behind our treasures with a full money back return policy if the items are not as described.

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. Daum has been home to an astonishingly rich roster of creative spirits and is today a state-owned enterprise making pâte de verre figurines.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	engraved L Majorelle/Daum Nancy France with the Cross of Lorraine.
Origin:	France
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Art Glass, Iron, Fired, Hand-Crafted
Condition:	Excellent with no defects
Creation Date:	circa 1925
Styles / Movements:	Art Nouveau, Modern
Incollect Reference #:	640689