Daum Frères and Louis Majorelle, "Magnolia" table lamp

circa 1904
Opalescent blown and wheel-carved iridescent glass, patinated bronze.
23 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (60 x 21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Shade engraved DAUM/NANCY and with Cross of Lorraine, base incised L Majorelle/Nancy.

Provenance

Macklowe Gallery Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

Literature

Janine Bloch-Derman, L’Art du Verre en France, 1860-1914, Lausanne, 1974, p. 138 for a similar example
Noël Daum, Daum: Mastery of Glass, Lausanne, 1980, p. 147
Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, New York, 1991, pp. 146, 215
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salon 1895-1914, Volume V: Objets d’Art & Metalware, Woodbridge, 1999, p. 396
Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Furniture: The Majorelle Catalogue ca. 1910, New York, 2002, pl. 32
Julius Hoffmann Jr., The Modern Style, 1899-1905: Art Nouveau, 2006, Bonn, p. 221
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle: Un Art de Vivre Modern, Paris, 2009, p. 99