Attributed to Charles Schneider

Attributed to CHARLES SCHNEIDER (1881-1953).
Art Deco center.
Blown glass and wrought iron.
Measurements: 20 x 16 x 16 cm.

Center of Art Deco style, in translucent red glass, carved with attractive gadroons highlighted by the wrought iron structure. The combination of iron and glass applied to Art Deco pieces was common in Schneider's glassware.
Schneider, after studying in Paris as a glass engraver, opened in 1909 a glass factory with his brother, which after closing with the outbreak of war, reopened in 1917 under the name of Verriers Schneider. He introduced in the glass pieces cameos with floral and animal design that heralded the Art Deco taste. In 1921 he started a line signed "Le Verre Français" in which he introduced the so-called "crystal marquetry", in which inspired by wood marquetry, the design is carved out of the vase and filled with colored glass. His art glass pieces were sold at Galerie Lafayette, Le Printemps and the Delvaux and Rouard art galleries. Le Verre Français's glass was made exclusively with the etching and acid technique. Occasionally he used wheel engraving with several layers of glass. Always innovative, Schneider created a new technique of colored powders mixed with metal oxides to obtain special colors.