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Beautiful vase glass paste horn * signed Daum Nancy **, decorated with clear brown landscape on green acid, with a body of water surrounded by trees, bushes and vegetation lakeside, of Art Nouveau late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This vase is in good condition and is of good quality, the colors and the scenery is beautiful. It is signed Daum Nancy with Cross of Lorraine and is numbered below.
A note: some stains, light bubbles, scratches and some wear on the sets, see photos (especially the latter).
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* Molten glass: processing known since antiquity (Pliny) Glass rediscovered by H.Cros 1880, which sought fusible material can be worked in paste or liquid state. This is a colored crystal previously pulverized and mixed with water, added with a binder to compose a paste; thereof after cooking becomes hard and translucent then be modeled as a sculpture and colored. It otient real molten glass by amalgamating cold glasses and enamels ground. The paste is then molded and subjected to baking in a lost wax mold; under the effect of heat the agglomerate components. (Larousse Dictionary antiques and flea market).
* Following the War of 1870, Jean Daum (1825-1885), notary in Bitche, sells his study and opts for France. He moved to Nancy in 1876 and in 1878 bought a glass. In 1878, he associates his son Augustus. At his death in 1885, Augustus takes only the direction of the glass before being joined in 1887 by his brother Antonin. The production of glass will move towards artistic creation. The two brothers prepare between 1889 and 1891 creating a art department that is entrusted to Antonin. Augustus gives it all means work to attend the wake dug by Émile Gallé glass in Art Nouveau. The Universal Exposition of 1900 brought international recognition with the award of a Grand Prix. In 1901, the artists will base Daum and Majorelle E.Gallé the Nancy School, spearheaded the Art Nouveau. The company continues to participate in major exhibitions in Barcelona in 1923, International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, Colonial Exposition in Paris in 1931. In the 1920s, Paul directs the production to Art Deco to the loss of Public interest in Art Nouveau. The crystal still exists and its production is internationally known for the quality of these creations.
