Daum Nancy Vase

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Description: Magnificent work with unmistakable style.

Daum Nancy glass is the best and most famous French cameo glass of the Art Nouveau period from 1890 to 1920. The glass was called ""cameo glass"" because it was built up with different colored layers and cut back with acid to reveal beautiful floral or scenic designs. Daum Nancy built this glass into vases, bowls, and lamps.

Antonin Daum (1864-1930) was trained as engineer and was vice-president of the School of Nancy movement. He created a separate department in the glassworks to create new motifs and staffed it with talented specialists, setting a good trend of changing to suit the times. As a result, Daum Nancy produced some great Art Deco pieces, too, when that movement was the rage in the 1920s. Daum's Amalric Walter revived an ancient technique called pate de verre, which mixes crushed glass with enamel and places it in the mold so that it won't shift with the color. This and an exacting process of acid etching enabled the Nancy works to create masterpieces of brilliant colors with precise placement and depth with different layers of design that were transparent. Daum showed the world how to make glass more beautiful, and some of his techniques became universal, starting with the "borrowing" of them by Tiffany for art nouveau pieces in America. .php?description=Daum

Decorative arts flourished in Nancy from medieval times to present, but they reached their artistic apex and became world renown in the 1890s, when L'Ecole de Nancy, the Lorraine-based school of art nouveau, was formed. Nancy had an abundance of talent spread across all the decorative arts: ceramics, pottery, crystal, etching, stained glass, ironwork, furniture making, and more. Daum Nancy, the pottery taken over by Antonin and Auguste Daum, exerted a strong influence on motifs taken from nature. /JournalEntryActivity.aspx?Mode=2&BusinessCardID=99456

Status: For Sale	Reference#: DL01101
Condition: Excellent	Year: c 1910s
Country: France
Height: 21 in. (53.34 cm)	Depth: 8 in. (20.32 cm)
Width: 8 in. (20.32 cm)

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