antique Schneider-Le Verre Francais French Signed Cameo

Schneider - Le Verre Francais signed antique French Cameo Glass Table Lamp, acid etched with with stylized flowers, height 23 inches overall. Circa 1920. has the candy cane early signature .Aubepines Pattern. The two brothers Charles and Ernst Schneider both worked for the factory Daum in Nancy in the beginning of the 20th century and there they learned the technique of blowing and etching the glass. In 1913, just before World War I, they founded a factory of themselves in Epinay sur Seine and started tot develop a new style with more firm lines and more clear colors. The vases of the factory Schneider had already more features of the Art Deco than of the Art Nouveau. They imported new forms and new colors in the world of glass industry that was those days dominated by Daum and Galle.Le Verre Francais-They developed two production lines in the glass factory with two different styles: glass with the signature “Le Verre Francais” and the other line with only the signature “Schneider”. The line of Le Verre Francais made cameo glass that existed out of several layers of etched glass. The motifs of the decorations were inspired by the nature, but were represented in a more abstract way and therefore the glass objects show a great difference with the style of the glass of the factory of Gallé or Daum. They created their own specific style that you can recognize on the very contrasting colors on the glass object. For example notice the contrast between orange and yellow on many pieces of the factory Schneider-Le Verre Francais. Therefore the colors make nowadays a more modern impression and the art objects of the factory Schneider can be placed easily in a complete modern interior.The vases of the line Le Verre Francais were produced in higher numbers than the art objects of the other line of this factory. These glass objects with only the signature “Schneider” are more rare to find and therefore rather expensive. Signatures and Originality-There are different signatures: Le Verre Francais on the foot of the vase and Charder (=Charles Schneider) in the middle of the vase. Sometimes both the signatures are represented on the vase. In the early vases of the factory there is no signature at all except for the small glass candy cane stick melted into the glass object with the three colors of the flag of France, the so-called “Berlingot flag”. When a vase has a small Berlingot flag than it is an early one made just after World War I. Reference:: Charles Schneider, Le Verre Francais- Charder Schneider by Marie-Christine Joulin and Gerold Maier, Augsburg, 2004. There are very good copies on the market nowadays but this is not one of them. good condition