Daum Nancy – “Paysage Soleil Couchant” vase with two applied handles by Frères Daum

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Daum Nancy – “Paysage Soleil Couchant” vase with two applied handles 1900 - 1910

Frères Daum

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About the artwork
Multi-color Art Nouveau vase made by Daum Nancy in the beginning of the 20th century. The vase has a transparent ground with multi-color glass inclusions in orange, yellow and blue. The outer layer is decorated with a tree scenic decor and has multiple colors going from light blue and green at the base, to black at the area of the trees. The whole outer layer of the vase has a beautiful satin finish due to the acid-etching. The top has two orange applied handles.
About the artist
Daum is a crystal studio in the city of Nancy, France.
It was founded in 1878 by Jean Daum(1825–1885).
His sons, Auguste Daum (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), oversaw its developing success during the burgeoning Art Nouveau period.

Currently Daum is the only commercial crystal manufacturer employing the pâte de verre (glass paste) process for art glass and crystal sculptures, a technique in which crushed glass is packed into a refractory mould and then fused in a kiln.

During the Universal Exhibition of 1900 Daum was awarded a ‘Grand Prix’ medal. Daum glass became more elaborate, acid etching (by Jacques Gruber) was often combined with carving, enamelling and engraving on a single piece of glass to produce creative glass master-pieces.

The most complicated creations also feature applied glass elements, such as handles and ornamental motifs in naturalistic forms. The Daum brothers quickly moved on to become one of the major forces in the Art Nouveau movement, seriously rivalling Gallé, so much so that when Émile Gallé died in 1904 they became the leaders in the field of decorative glass.

In 1906 Daum revived pâte de verre (glass paste), an ancient Egyptian method of glass casting, developing the method so that by the 1930s Daum's window panels used pâte de verre for richness instead of leaded or painted glass. Today Daum still used this method to produce their pieces.

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