Daum Frères | RARE GLASS TABLE LAMP 'VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS' WITH A SNAIL
RARE GLASS TABLE LAMP 'VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS' WITH A SNAIL.
Daum Frères. Nancy.
Date: Ca. 1904.
Maker/Designer: Draft Henri Bergé.
Technique: Acromatic glass with yellow, white and violet powder inclusions. Overlay in red, white, green and dark violet. Metal mounting.
Description: The curved shade once graded. Applied snail in yellow. Shiny partly iridescent, etched vine tendril decor on matte ground.
Measurement: Height 35cm.
Mark: On the lamp shade inscr. 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine, engraved.
Mark: On foot inscr. 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine, engraved.
Literature:
Ricke, Helmut und Schmitt, Eva (ed.): Glas des Art Nouveau. Die Sammlung Gerda Koepff, Munich 1998, cf. there one special edition of this series for the world exhibition in Liège in 1905 with vine leaves after a draft by Henri Bergé, p. 216f., cat. rais. no. 105.
The vases of this luxury series are characterised by the unusal choice of colours and the plastic details that were applied while being hot. First applications of this kind have been known since the world exhibition in Paris in 1900.
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RARE GLASS TABLE LAMP 'VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS' WITH A SNAIL.
Daum Frères. Nancy.
Date: Ca. 1904.
Maker/Designer: Draft Henri Bergé.
Technique: Acromatic glass with yellow, white and violet powder inclusions. Overlay in red, white, green and dark violet. Metal mounting.
Description: The curved shade once graded. Applied snail in yellow. Shiny partly iridescent, etched vine tendril decor on matte ground.
Measurement: Height 35cm.
Mark: On the lamp shade inscr. 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine, engraved.
Mark: On foot inscr. 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine, engraved.
Literature:
Ricke, Helmut und Schmitt, Eva (ed.): Glas des Art Nouveau. Die Sammlung Gerda Koepff, Munich 1998, cf. there one special edition of this series for the world exhibition in Liège in 1905 with vine leaves after a draft by Henri Bergé, p. 216f., cat. rais. no. 105.
The vases of this luxury series are characterised by the unusal choice of colours and the plastic details that were applied while being hot. First applications of this kind have been known since the world exhibition in Paris in 1900.
